Re: 4.2 Release plans - Last chance for comments

[Lars H. <lhe...@us...>]

Daniel J Sebald writes:
[...] 
> Yes, and if one is able to reach him, it would be good to discuss some
> way of resolving the License issues...  I could try contacting the Colin
> Kelly at that Callwave company to see if he is the other half of the
> original copyright holders.  However, any identifiable info about Kelly
> that Thomas Williams could provide would help, e.g., a college he may
> have been attending or worked for at the time.
 
 As the person attached to this project who has been in touch with
 Tom Williams most recently, I would like to say this:

  - There is no communication channel to Thomas Williams right now.
  - Colin Kelley has been "lost in cyberspace" for the better part of the past
    decade. Possibly two decades.
  - If we could somehow establish contact with Colin, I would appreciate it.
  - Every time I have been in touch with Thomas Williams about a new release,
    he was always very supportive. While, as a copyright holder, he has
    any right to reject anything we come up with (don't forget that), all
    communication never indicated any disapproval of the work the 
    development team has done. Quite the contrary, in fact.

 So, this upcoming release will go ahead as laid out by Ethan.

 There are no (new) licensing issues to be discussed.

 While both original copyright holders are absent, we will act in lieu
 of the copyright holders, in good faith, and issue new releases of the
 software - meaning that we continue to develop gnuplot as before, adding
 bug fixes and user input-driven enhancements as we see fit. And make new
 releases available accordingly.