On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 10:32:47AM +0300, Heikki Hannikainen wrote:
> 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.
Did it, tried it and failed :(
That was about 3 years ago, anyone else want to have a go?
> > 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?
All of them, they all are pretty much the same after all
tpp, conversd and httpu
- Craig
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