[Gpe-list] Uothello

[Joseph J. McCarthy]

Great. Thanks for the quick reply.

I am glad that GPE can keep using your fine game. It has definitely made
me a much better othello player! ;)

Regards.

Joe

On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 21:20 +0100, Florent Boudet wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> This has been years since I haven't coded anything nor received any  
> mail related to Uothello, and I have to say that I am happy to learn  
> that our code is still used inside gpe-othello !
> You can of course consider that the old code for version 1667 is  
> GPL'ed, even if there was no license file distributed along.
> All the code of this version has been written by Jean Christophe  
> Hoelt and me.
> 
> Best regards,
> Florent
> 
> 
> Le 15 janv. 07 à 20:18, Joseph J. McCarthy a écrit :
> 
> > Gentlemen:
> >
> > I am a developer for the GPE project (gpe.linuxtogo.org), but not a
> > particularly talented one ;)
> >
> > A few years back, in the interests of putting together a game for the
> > familiar distro, I cam across Uothello for GTK (I think the 1667
> > version).
> >
> > I modified the code to make it work nicely on PDA screens and have  
> > used
> > it under the name of "gpe-othello" for a while.
> >
> > People that are better at this sort of thing are concerned now  
> > about the
> > origins of the code (since you did not have a copyright file in the
> > original package) since they realize that packaging it (officially) is
> > problematic without giving proper credit and having it licensed
> > correctly.
> >
> > Since it is, in essence, your code I wanted to ask if you intended  
> > this
> > old code to be GPL's in the same way that your newer code for Uothello
> > is?
> >
> > I will be certain to give proper credit to you via an "AUTHORS" file,
> > but need to know what license this should carry.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Joe
> > -- 
> > Joseph J. McCarthy, Associate Professor and
> > William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow
> > Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
> > University of Pittsburgh
> > 1249 Benedum Hall Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
> > Ph. 412-624-7362; Fax 412-624-9639
> > mccarthy at granular.che.pitt.edu
> > http://granular.che.pitt.edu
> >
-- 
Joseph J. McCarthy, Associate Professor and
William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
1249 Benedum Hall Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
Ph. 412-624-7362; Fax 412-624-9639
mccarthy at granular.che.pitt.edu
http://granular.che.pitt.edu