Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-11 Thread Martin Schulze
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 07:46:47PM -0700, David Welton wrote: > /* > * Copyright (c) 1990-1998 Michael Sandrof, Troy Rollo, Matthew R. Green > * All rights reserved. I won't include the whole Licence but a pointer in a press release. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PR

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-10 Thread David Welton
--- Michel Sandrof, Troy Rollo, and Matthew Green are putting the ircII code under the following license (BSD without the 'advertising' clause), retroactive to all versions of ircII, past and present, in order to indicate that it is Open Source without a doubt (the previous license, while intending

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-10 Thread David Welton
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 12:08:51PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 09:04:59AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > As bad form as it may be to follow up to my own post... > > And once again... :) > > I've talked to Igor, somewhat appropriately, on IRC [irc.debian.org, > #debian],

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-10 Thread Anthony Towns
icense that was both formal enough to avoid questions like this in the future and that would also ensure ircII was as free as the authors had always intended. Finally, on the 8th of June, David Welton posted a message to the Debian Developers mailing list, entitled ``ircII is now free'',

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-09 Thread Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > As far as being 'happy' about it.. well, it's nice that it's cleared > up, but.. I don't think we changed much other than some licensing > details. This software wasn't intended to be non-free... If > anything, I'm happy to put this behind me and get on with other > thi

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, I will upload a new version of ircII with a note on the free copyright and some minor fixes later this week. Have a nice day. eckes -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMA

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-09 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 02:05:45AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: On the subject of ircII, thanks David, your effort is GREATLY appreciated. > > > RedHat for one doesn't care for this, so I think it's one of the > > > examples of what Debian is doing for Free Software with its > > > clear and visi

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-09 Thread Martin Schulze
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 02:35:01PM -0700, David Welton wrote: > > RedHat for one doesn't care for this, so I think it's one of the > > examples of what Debian is doing for Free Software with its > > clear and visible ideological organization. > > Well, except for the fact that they are pumping 100

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-08 Thread Anthony Towns
ct details of Mr Sandrof. Numerous telephone conversations and email exchanges ensued to obtain a license that ensured ircII was as free as the authors had always intended. Finally, on the 8th of June, David Welton posted a message to the Debian Developers mailing list, entitled ``ircII is now fr

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-08 Thread David Welton
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 04:52:28PM -0300, Lalo Martins wrote: > > RedHat for one doesn't care for this, so I think it's one of the > examples of what Debian is doing for Free Software with its > clear and visible ideological organization. Well, except for the fact that they are pumping 1000's of

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-08 Thread Lalo Martins
On Jun 09, Anthony Towns decided to present us with: > > I wonder if we'd like to make a press release about this? Initial > sentiment on the IRC channel is quite positive, but I thought I'd > ask here as well. Yes I think so. Not the first case of almost-free software being made free: 1: Enligh

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-08 Thread David Welton
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 05:22:46AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 10:50:56AM -0700, David Welton wrote: > > Ok, after a lot of emailing, ircII-current has the following license: > > (from ircii.warped.com/pub/ircII/ircii-current/ircii/doc) > > > > [...license deleted...] >

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-08 Thread Anthony Towns
[not Cc'ed to the bug tracking system for what I hope are obvious reasons :)] On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 10:50:56AM -0700, David Welton wrote: > Ok, after a lot of emailing, ircII-current has the following license: > (from ircii.warped.com/pub/ircII/ircii-current/ircii/doc) > > [...license deleted.

ircII is now free.

1998-06-08 Thread David Welton
Ok, after a lot of emailing, ircII-current has the following license: (from ircii.warped.com/pub/ircII/ircii-current/ircii/doc) /* * Copyright (c) 1990 Michael Sandrof. * Copyright (c) 1991, 1992 Troy Rollo. * Copyright (c) 1992-1998 Matthew R. Green. * All rights reserved. * * Redistributi