Re: [Metacosm-dev] Still alive

[Chris Laprun]

Hi all,

I am still alive as well! Sorry I haven't shown more signs of life but 
I have to admit that metacosm was somewhat put in the background for me 
(as it seems it has been for most of you as well or am I wrong in 
assuming that?)...

On Aug 10, 2003, at 11:28 AM, Benoît Sibaud wrote:

> Hi,
>
> after a long silence, some news about Metacosm:
>
> - it compiles with gcj-3.3 (Makefile updated)

Cool.

> - there is still a GPL violation with Xerces (Apache Public License), 
> and
> anyway Xerces is unneeded (replaced by libgcj). So some cleaning about
> Xerces is needed. (at least META-INF/MANIFEST-controlpanel.MF,
> META-INF/MANIFEST-metacosm.MF, META-INF/MANIFEST-zheroez.MF, INSTALL,
> build.xml, controlPanel.properties,
> org/metacosm/framework/server/AdminCommandStreamParser.java)

I have never been really interested in this licensing issues since I 
see them as hinderance and they were actually partly why I couldn't be 
bothered with metacosm anymore. I like open source and the GPL but not 
when it gets in the way of getting the job done... Anyway, I guess this 
is not really important for me to say that now! :)

> - references to Piccolo removed (no need for Piccolo)

...

> - metacosm.org domain. "Expiration Date:02-Sep-2003 17:17:47 UTC"

I am still the owner of the domain name and we don't currently use it 
since Savanna doesn't provide DNS redirection as SF was doing so I 
don't really see the point of renewing the domain name for metacosm 
itself unless we find a way to make use of the domain. More 
importantly, we should make sure that there are still people interested 
in working on the project...

UBiK