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