- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:24:24 -0400
- To: www-lib@w3.org
W3C has been working with Richard Stallman in order to make the W3C libwww copyright license compatible with the GNU GPL. The result is a new copyright statement which you can find linked from http://www.w3.org/Library/#Legal along with other useful information. The copyright statement became valid on August 14 so this only concerns libwww hackers who stated after this date. We are now in the very happy situation that software which is free from any claims beyond W3C terms and conditions are compatible with the GPL and may be redistributed under the GPL. Libwww is free and can be used for any purpose what so ever and we are looking forward to see it used in as many places as possible. You can help making this happen by spreading the word and help adding pointers to http://www.w3.org/Library/ so that more people can help making it grow. At the same time cleaned up the acknowledgement notice to CERN who made libwww publicly available very early on [1] based on recommendations by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau. All changes have been checked in to CVS. http://www.w3.org/Library/cvs.html Henrik [1] http://www.cern.ch/CERN/Technology/spinoff/9.html -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk
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