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

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

On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 08:49:35AM +0000, Dave Cross (da...@da...) wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:04:06PM +0000, Dave Cross (da...@da...) wrote:
> 
> [snip] 
> 
> > 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.

One other thing. In the email to SourceForge Matt mentions references to
his web site still being in rand_image and ssi_rand_image. When looking at
these files can you please make very sure that we remove all references to
Matt or his web sites.

Oh, and a warm welcome to all of the new subscribers :)

Dave...

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