I never claimed to be doing a clean-room implementation. I only ever claimed to be rewriting the code from scratch, and that is what I am doing. As for why I am not worried about the licensing, perhaps it would be instructive for the group to actually READ the license from the codebase which I clearly stated I was using as a reference. My selection of a BSD-style license is compatible for the restrictions placed by the license, which I have reproduced below for those who do not have a copy handy. At no time have corners been cut, laws broken, or others rights disparaged. I presume (and hope) this particular thread is over. :) License follows: NETREK XP LICENSE It's really simple. Permission is granted similar to the copyright notices from Chris Guthrie, Kevin Smith and Scott Silvey. * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its * documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided * that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting * documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this * software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or * implied warranty. With one restriction. You may not re-license this code under the GNU General Public License or even the Lesser GPL(LGPL) licenses, or any other viral license which requires the forced release of source code as a condition for binary release. CREDITS Various people over the years have contributed to Netrek, many of their names have been forgotten over the years. It's impossible to name them all here, but I shall try. NetrekXP was derived from COW which lists these individuals as contributing: Chris Guthrie, Ed James, Scott Silvey, and Kevin Smith, Tedd Hadley, Andy McFadden, Eric Mehlhaff, J. Mark Noworolski, Nick Trown, Lars Bernhardsson, Sam Shen, Rick Weinstein, Jeff Nelson, Jeff Waller, Robert Kenney, Steve Sheldon, Jonathan Shekter, Dave Gosselin, Heiko Wengler, Neil Cook, Kurt Siegl and many others. (They forgot Kevin Powell, Nathan Doss, Michael Kantner) Special thanks should be given to Jonathan Shekter for doing the original Windows port of COW-lite. Further thanks should go to Shawn Collenburg for adapting the COW-lite changes to COW. Extra Special Thanks should go to Rony Muliana for the Rabbit Ear bitmaps! They RULE! Special thanks for the getname.c ideas that came from Greg Chung. Many ideas adapted from COW-lite came from Kevin Powell and Jeff Nelson. Many of the bitmaps were taken from Paradise version of the Netrek client. I am not sure who to credit for these, but Michael Kellen's name has come up in past discussions. That probably also means Michael McGrath, Brandon Gillepsie and others helped, possibly. Joe Rumsey should be credited, as I'm sure he did something useful at some point. :) Trent Piepho is given thanks for pointing out some major bugs, giving some feedback on the Observer filter(which needs Server support and doesn't seem to work, but ohwell) and probably for even contributing some code that nobody knows about. ORIGINAL COPYRIGHT NOTICES /* Copyright 1989 Kevin P. Smith Scott Silvey Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies. */ /* Copyright (c) 1986 Chris Guthrie * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its * documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided * that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting * documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this * software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or * implied warranty. * * ----------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 1989 * Kevin P. Smith Scott Silvey * * ditto. * * ----------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 1993 * * As above. Use at your own risk. * * COW (BRM) authors (including but not limitted to: Kevin Powell Nick Trown * Jeff Nelson Kurt Siegl) * ----------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 1994 * * As above. * * Hockey Lines added to COW by Nathan Doss Michael Kantner * * ----------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 1998 * As above. * * Netrek 1999 * Steve Sheldon (sheldon at visi.com) * * ----------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2002 * * As above. * * Netrek XP Mod * Stas Pirogov (keyos at keyos.org) * * ----------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2006 * * As above. * * Netrek XP * Bill Balcerski *