[Savannah-hackers] RE: Unbundling of NhProxy and licensing arrangements

[Warren Cheung]

Merry Christmas!

I definitely give any permission relating to relicensing NhProxy,  leaving
the final decision to the discretion of J. Ali Harlow.

Enjoy the holidays,

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Warren Alexander Cheung      Masters Student, Computer Science
                             University of British Columbia

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-----Original Message-----
From: J. Ali Harlow [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: December 18, 2004 3:31 PM
To: Warren Cheung; Clive Crous; Paul Hurtley; Pekka Rousu
Cc: Slash'EM devel mailing list; address@hidden
Subject: Unbundling of NhProxy and licensing arrangements


Dear Slash'EM Development Team,

As I'm sure you know, I'm in the process of unbundling NhProxy from  
Slash'EM with a view to creating a new package which will be useable by  
both vanilla NetHack and by external interfaces which aren't themselves  
part of Slash'EM (eg., Clive's various interfaces). My hope is to host  
nhproxy on savannah and I am currently discussing the copyright and  
licensing issues with the savannah hackers.

The Slash'EM Development Team is currently listed as the copyright  
holder for the NhProxy files (I did this in an attempt to make it  
easier for others to contribute, though noone did in the end). I would  
like to release these files under both the NetHack General Public  
License (as currently) and the GNU Lesser Public License. This latter  
will allow external interfaces to use NhProxy without needing to be  
licensed under the NetHack General Public License themselves.

I would be very grateful, therefore, if you could each give your  
permission for this re-licensing to occur so that there can be no  
question in the future as to legality of what I'm trying to do.

Many thanks,

Ali.