G'day All,
I have had a look around all the hamradio converse bridges and found
that none of them have anything approaching a decent license. This
means that distributions cannot distrbute them legally and all sorts
of other horrible consequences.
I would like to propose a project to create a converse daemon that is
licensed under the GPL. I have seen recent work on patching one or more
of the various daemons out there and would ask for help from these
people. Of course they would have to contribute only code that they
wrote themselves and be happy to have it licensed under GPL.
There is a lot of tainted code in existing implementations that either
do not allow you to use or copy it or have conflicting licenses which
means you cannot use it anyway. That is why we need to start from
scratch on the core part.
I also know people have ideas about what things could/should be added,
we can look at that too. I have been going through the various
documentation and reading about the protocols, what is missing is the
user<->server protocol.
This email is a call for others who have similar ideas to test to see if
we have sufficient interest. I know some people have been mumbling
about doing this before, we then let's actually go out and build this
thing.
I am also interesting in hearing from any conversd administrators about
what added features we can put in to make it better.
Comments?
- Craig
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