On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:26:34AM +0200, Kurt Siegl wrote: > 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. I can probably track down at least Kevin Smith and Scott Silvey. They might be able to track down Chris Guthrie. -Tom