On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Patrick wrote:
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:23:29 -0400 (EDT)
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Patrick wrote:
I managed to find a copy of Lynx 2.0.9 some time ago, from 1992,
Sorry, 1993. I was looking at the copyright date, not the
CHANGES file.
on the FilWatcher FTP search engine. Won't compile for me [*many*
warnings, then a fatal error], but may be of historical interest
to some. The source tarball is also just below 50webs' 500k
per-file limit, so I could put it there.
However, this version was released before it was placed under the
GPL. So... whose permission do I need? Do I need permission, or
has it already been given?
Does it have a README, or something like that? (I'd grep for "Kansas").
Yes, but that describes how to use it, not what you're allowed to
do with it.
(C) 1992 Lou Montulli, University of Kansas -- with a lot of
material by Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac, and others too I'm
sure. A lot of the documentation may belong to the University of
Kansas, because it describes their CWIS [as it was in 1993 at
least].
That's a lot of permission, so I'd hoped for a simple answer
here, if anyone remembers that far back. Oh well. Guess I'll
start asking around...
I don't know - the oldest version I've come across was 2.4 (which is dated
late 1996 - well after the changes to copyrights).
Now that I'm looking at it, the CHANGES file is over a year older than
that, and doesn't mention copyright. The sources include a
src/LYCopyRight.h file dated 1995-02-10, which cites 1994 as the most
recent copyright for University of Kansas, while COPYHEADER (dated
1996-01-12) says 1995.
It would have been nice if CHANGES had been updated to reflect these
changes (but at least it does have _some_ dates).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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