On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:39:27AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > Following the discussions at EIndhoven,here is what has been agreed upon, > Tony TEBBY also having agreed to it: > > In short: > > Whilst Tony Tebby will retain copyright over the code, anyone may have a > copy of the source code and modify it ang give it away for free. > There will also be an official version of SMSQ/E that will be maintained > by a registrar and be sold by 2 people, namely Roy WOOD and Jochen Merz. > Support for this official version will be part of the price. > The purpose for the official version is to make sure, as much as possible, > that any change to SMSQ/E for one amchine (e.g. Q60 or QPC) will percolate > down to all other machines (e.g. QPC, Q40, QXL etc...) as fast as possible, in > an attempt to make sure that we have one single version with the same > features (hardware permitting) for all machines. > Any change made by anybody may be proposed to the registrar for inclusion > in the official version. > > Ok, the above is the essence of what was agreed upon, for a more > detailed version, read on: > > > Official statement > ==================
as far as I could understand the statements I am not sure whether it is allowed to give away SMSQ in binary form (whether or not acompanied by sources), can you please clarify this? This might be of great interest for HW vendors who want release testing versions for new HW quickly. Btw anyone who would maintain a mirror of the code on some public CVS server? I could do it on Sourceforge but somewhat doubt that they will accept this copyright. Bye Richard
