> Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 15:38:41 +1000
> Subject: Call to create conversd that is GPLed
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Small)
>
> 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.
Please consider a Berkeley-style copyright (see http://www.opensource.org/,
http://www.opensource.org/osd.html, and http://www.opensource.org/licenses/).
> 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. ...
Some argue, correctly I believe, that GPL is also "tainted".
-tjs
