From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jan 18 7:12:41 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A7AD37B401 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 07:12:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com (mailout01.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA1743F13 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 07:12:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ino-qc@spotteswoode.de.eu.org) Received: from fwd03.sul.t-online.de by mailout01.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18ZueC-00084x-05; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 16:12:36 +0100 Received: from spotteswoode.dnsalias.org (520082050842-0001@[62.155.170.177]) by fmrl03.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18Zudv-23P8ueC; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 16:12:19 +0100 Received: (qmail 2967 invoked by uid 0); 18 Jan 2003 15:12:19 -0000 Date: 18 Jan 2003 16:12:19 +0100 Message-ID: From: "clemens fischer" To: ports@FreeBSD.org, "Stefan `Sec` Zehl" Cc: "Thomas E. Dickey" Subject: Fwd: lynx-dev [CHRPM] lynx-2.8.5-0.11mdk.dev.8 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i386-unknown-freebsd4.6.2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" X-Sender: 520082050842-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --=-=-= hi. there has been diskussion on the lynx-dev list on the license. lynx (text browser) isn't GPL, but one cannot say that it is in the public domain, either. numerous people have contributed over time, some of which cannot be contacted anymore. there are japanese/CJK versions floating around and parts of the code can't be attributed to anybody anymore. thomas dickey, lynx' main maintainer and most people on the list would like to have this issue cleared up, so that we might opt for making it a source-forge/savannah project or whatever. what is your opinion in this matter? do you have any information on who wrote what under which license? regards, clemens fischer --=-=-= Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline X-From-Line: alias Tue Nov 19 19:10:34 2002 Received: (qmail 30242 invoked by uid 10101); 19 Nov 2002 18:10:33 -0000 Delivered-To: ino-qc@spotteswoode.de.eu.org Received: (qmail 30226 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2002 18:10:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO spotteswoode.dnsalias.org) (ino@127.0.0.1) by spotteswoode.dnsalias.org with SMTP; 19 Nov 2002 18:10:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 88253 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2002 18:03:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dfw-listserv1.email.verio.net) (129.250.36.34) by mail.webmonster.de with SMTP; 19 Nov 2002 18:03:07 -0000 Received: from majordom by dfw-listserv1.email.verio.net with local id 18ECgu-0003Hz-00; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:01:40 +0000 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:02:35 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas E. Dickey" To: X-Mailinglist: true Subject: Re: lynx-dev Re: [CHRPM] lynx-2.8.5-0.11mdk.dev.8 In-Reply-To: X-Gnus-Mail-Source: directory:~/mail/ Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-lynx-dev@sig.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: lynx-dev@sig.net X-Mailing-List: lynx-dev X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.340805, version=0.8.0 Lines: 29 Xref: ID-23066.news.dfncis.de INBOX:5130 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5130 Tue Nov 19 19:17:52 2002 On 19 Nov 2002, Clemens Fischer wrote: > Thomas Dickey : > > >> how about this: everybody ever contributing to lynx source and/or > >> documentation shall send an email to thomas dickey giving him the > >> copyright to these parts. > > > > That would be hard (not all contributors can be contacted). > > ... within reasonable limits of time. i think if we'd post to this > list and maybe on slashdot or somesuch medium, email them and wait a > month, this is what i'd call reasonable. also, we should contact the > FSF about this, and freebsd. eg. freebsd has lynx in it's base > distribution at a critical point (important documentation will be > installed in HTML, and lynx for viewing it). > > want me to ask? sure - go ahead. It might be a good way to go. -- T.E.Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to majordomo@sig.net --=-=-=-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message