Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Message from Matt

[Dave C. <da...@da...>]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:04:06PM +0000, Dave Cross (da...@da...) wrote:

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> On the other hand, he's mightily upset that we're still distributing
> README files that are heavily based on his originals. And, of course,
> he has every right to be upset by that. We _are_ violating his copyright.
> 
> Now, I was planning to rewrite all the docs at some point. But you know how
> it is. Documentation isn't exactly the most exciting job in the world. But
> now it all beoomes a but more urgent. We really need to remove all of Matt's
> documentation over this coming weekend. I don't think I can do it all
> myself so I need some help.
> 
> I've done the README in countdown, so you've got an example to work from
> (note that's in CVS - not been released yet). I'll do all the smaller 
> scripts (ffa, rand_image, rand_link, rand_text, ssi_rand_image, textclock
> and textcounter). If others could volunteer to take on formmail, guestbook,
> search and wwwboard I'd be grateful.
> 
> I stress that this weekend that aim is simply to replace Matt's docs with our
> own. It would be great if it was _better_ than Matt's, but at the moment I'll
> settle for "different". We'll improve it later.
> 
> Please help.

This has now got a little more serious. Matt got tired of waiting for us to
fix the files (even tho' it's nightime in the UK) and has emailed the
SourceForge admins (copying me) demanding that action is taken.

I've therefore removed the README files from all of the packages (except
countdown, which I fixed last night) and have replaced them with a skeleton
which needs to be filled in.

I haven't put these skeleton files into CVS yet. You'll need to download
a tarball from <http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/> and pull it from there.

The skeleton file currently points people to the READMEs on Matt's site.
This is obviously not a good idea, so the quicker we get it all fixed, the
better.

Thanks for your help.

Dave...

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