In preparing an updated RES-RSA package, I have decided to place it explicitly under the BSD license attached below. If Ray Jones, Sam Shen, Nick Trown, Alec Habig, Kurt Siegl, Bob Tanner and anyone else who have worked on it is on this list, I would appreciate a quick email to this list or to me privately indicating your explicit permission to do so. Also, I'd like to make an effort to collect as many permissions as possible from any and all past contributors to any and all forms of Netrek software. If you are such a person, please send me a private email with: 1. Your name as you wish it to appear in the copyright statement. 2. Any specfic software you worked on (COW, Vanilla, small patches here and there, etc). 3. Years you worked on that software (for the copyright statement). 4. Your blanket permission to place all your past contributions to Netrek under the BSD license below. I have chosen the BSD license because it is most compatible with existing copyright / permission statements in the current source code. Any contributors who might have wanted a more restrictive license (like GPL) would have placed their code under such a license anyway. Will this effort amount to anything, and could it stand up in a court of law? Unknown. But at a minimum I would like to compile a master COPYRIGHT file that lists as many of the contributors as possible to give credit where credit is due. Dave / ahn at netrek.org ----------------- Netrek License Copyright (c) .... All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * The names of the contributors may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. -----------------------