Re: [JAWmail-devel] Audiofiles for recent_msg-plugin

[Rudi B. <ru...@ja...>]

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, 10:27:11 PM, Stefan Neufeind wrote:

> Hi,

> don't you fear there might be license problems? "U got maiL" might 
> bring, in my eyes, JawMail into problems as soon as AOL "feels like"
> putting up a fight. Maybe (Sure?) they won't - but who knows. Have 
> they released the sound under an open license? I guess it's ripped 
> from an AOL CD, right?

> And how about the Simpson-sound? The same? Well, if any other person
> said something funny okay. But calling it "Simpson" might be one 
> problem and the other being it really Homer, cut from TV or so.

> So in these two media-files I see (unnecessary?) license problems.

I got it from here (thanks to Google):

http://wso.williams.edu/~eudora/eudora-alert-sounds.html

I'd say that this stuff is already almost public domain... Would
anyone _really_ care? I know that AOL is weird when it comes to free
software (Nullsoft comes to mind) ...

If this really is an issue, I'll yell "YOU'VE GOT FREAKIN' MAIL" into
a mic... :P

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Rudi Benkovic           ru...@ja...