Open Source Licence (LGPL or GPL)

Robert Brenstein rjb at rz.uni-potsdam.de
Wed Sep 10 03:49:01 EDT 2003


>On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 03:55 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>>Robert Brenstein wrote:
>>
>>>BTW, the only archive I am aware of is at Mark Talluto's site, and
>>>may or may not be there for ever. MC and Rev have offered only the
>>>latest version so far. Besides, they do not offer just engines but
>>>full packages for download.
>>
>>I would advocate that RunRev provide an archive of all engines going back as
>>far as possible, at least to v2.4.
>>
>>Anyone know if they have plans for such an archive?
>>
>
>I will maintain the archive I have for another year at a minimum. 
>If I decide to close that server, I will let you guys know in 
>advance so that it can be maintained by someone else.  I use the 
>site for testing purposes.  The MC downloads do not take up that 
>much space, so I do not have any reason to close it.  I have a 
>regular amount of downloads for these files so it seems that it is 
>useful.  I am glad to be a part of this at this level.
>
>
>
>Best regards,
>Mark Talluto
>http://www.canelasoftware.com
>

Great to know your plans and thanks for keeping the files, Mark. 
However, your note proves that we need to have a provision to keep 
them elsewhere in the future, although our esteem honcho may relax as 
he does not have to maintain the archive in the foreseeable future :)

Robert



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