On Saturday 27 October 2001 22:12, Trent Piepho wrote:
>
> Everything I have read about this indicates that you need the permission of
> ALL the copyright holders in order to distribute their work under a
> different license.
>
> Of course that will never happen with netrek. I doubt anyone even knows
> who all the copyright holders are! This is why orginizations like the FSF
> require that all contrbutors sign over their copyright to the FSF.
The names is easy:
As for COW the license holders are:
Copyright (c) 1986 Chris Guthrie
Copyright 1989 Kevin P. Smith
Scott Silvey
Copyright 1993
* COW (BRM) authors (including but not limitted to: Kevin Powell Nick Trown
* Jeff Nelson Kurt Siegl)
Copyright 1994
* Hockey Lines added to COW by Nathan Doss Michael Kantner
Additionally for the server
Copyright (c) 1993 Tedd Hadley
Heiko Wengler
But there are lots of great contributors missing. And the hardest part would
probably be to find out where they are now. Probably even Tom Holub will not
be able to help us here.
So I opt for the community poll, since Netrek as it is now is a community
project where basically only Netrek players contributed to the code.
Kurt
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