Freddy gave permission for the original version to be released, ie. the one
he created.
Mark and Dave have done considerable work on the version I have, and in the
pure and simple interest of good manners, i feel it would be unfair to
distribute it until I hear from them. I'm sure it would be fine, but lets
just say I have incurred Marks fury on one occasion before, and I don't
want to go there again. Mark never told me the status of the upgraded
version he gave me - was it to be charityware, cardware, freeware,
shareware or what. I'm not going to release something into the PD unless
I'm sure thats what the author(s) wanted done with it. The majority of it
is Freddy's work, sure, but some of the code in there is Marks.
I sent an email to the address Dilwyn provided, but it bounced
back...............
So, unless someone has a newer email or phone number for Mark (or Dave),
well...
Cheers,
Darren Branagh,
Bank of Ireland - Cards And Loans Business,
Nassau House, 33/35 Nassau Street, Dublin 2. Ireland.
Tel: 1850-530-530 Fax: 01-6706813.
Direct Line:- (+353)-1-6176082
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"Brian Kemmett"
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Please respond to ql-users
If Freddie Vaccha gave permission for Perfection to become freeware, then
why can't it be released eh????
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Subject: Re: [ql-users] Perfection
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phoebus Dokos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [ql-users] Perfection
>
>
> .
>> Not entirely true :-) I submitted that idea to my graduating supervisor
>> professor at the uni and I was approved :-) That means that the
>> ql-archive
>> will be a reality (that is if I want to graduate in December ;-)
>> For status now: I am finished with the database structure and most of
the
>> search code (in PHP).
>>
>
> Glad to hear this, but I am not so interested in the technical side of
the
> archiving, but in the practical. I am not sure that the people who raised
> this issue 2 months ago were all talking about the same thing. Pity there
> was no proper discussion of this at the time.
>
> Practical problems are for example:
>
> 1: How do you make a complete inventory of all the QL software, both PD
> and
> commercial, that has ever been published? This first stage could occupy a
> team for months on end.
>
> 2: How do you contact the copyright holders and/or authors when there is
> no
> up to date contact information? Specifically how would you solve the
> QLiberator problem.
>
> 3: How do you sort out complicated copyright questions? For example
Freddy
> V
> gave permission for Perfection to become freeware, but not Spellchecker.
> Or
> think of the situation with the EasyPtr upgrade.
>
> 4: How do you cope with the anal retention problem, where an author
> refuses
> to release or modify code? (e.g. the Text87 problem.)
>
> If we are really serious about a software archive, then it should not be
a
> one man effort, but a team looking at these problems.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Geoff
>
>
>
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