Re: Call to create conversd that is GPLed

[Heikki Hannikainen]

On Wed, 3 May 2000, Craig Small wrote:

> 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.

  Might be slightly easier to get one of the currently used code trees
under GPL. That shouldn't be all that hard to do for htpp for example. For
most of the code you'd only need to talk to Dieter Deyke, Fred Baumgarten,
Warren Toomey and Brian Lantz. I don't see why they would object to
GPL'ing the code.

> 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.

  Which code tree did you look at, and what code did you find tainted?

  - Hessu