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$Id: LICENSE,v 1.1 1999/12/27 00:46:45 mattcamp Exp $

The following is an email I received from Ron Tapia, original author
of RMOO, when I contacted him regarding my modifications to the code.
I'm treating this as the license for RMOO, since he didn't give it a
formal license (like GPL or BSD).  The message is unedited, including
a quotation of my original message, which explains my motivation for
taking on this project.  In keeping with Ron's request, I have been
using the Revision Control System (RCS) to track my changes to the
code.  The RCS logs are at the bottom of the source files.

Matthew Campbell

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From: Ron Tapia <tapia@nmia.com>
To: Matthew Campbell <mattcamp@feist.com>
Subject: Re: RMOO
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 00:35:42 -0700 (MST)

Hi,

I haven't been actively working on rmoo (or MOO'ing for that matter) for
several years.

You are welcome to extend the code however you like. All that I ask is
that it be made reasonably clear in the source (and anywhere else
appropriate) what code I wrote and what code/changes you're responsible
for. 

Cheers,

Ron
Hagbard@LambdaMOO

==
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Matthew Campbell wrote:

> Hello Ron,
> 
> I found a copy of RMOO, your MOO client for Emacs, at
> ftp://tecfa.unige.edu/pub/software/unix/mud-clients/rmoo.tar.  It seems
> quite old (dated October 9, 1994), and I have found a bug in it.  Have you
> released a newer version, or have you quit working on it?
> 
> The main reason I am writing to you about RMOO is that I have extended it to
> support Emacspeak, a speech-enabling subsystem for Emacs.  Through
> Emacspeak, blind users can use Emacs, and Unix in general, and get the
> speech feedback that they need.  So I have wrote an extension to RMOO that
> makes it speak when it is run in conjuction with Emacspeak.  The bug I
> mentioned earlier was in rmoo.el, in the function rmoo-handle-text.  The
> line which should have read:
> 
> (run-hooks 'rmoo-handle-text-hooks)
> 
> actually read:
> 
> (run-hooks rmoo-handle-text-hooks)
> 
> This prevented my extension from working, because it adds itself as a hook
> in rmoo-handle-text-hooks.  So rather than releasing my extension and a
> patch for RMOO, I thought it would be easier to put RMOO--with the bug
> fixed--along with my Emacspeak extension in my own rmoo.tar.gz file.  In
> addition to fixing the bug and adding Emacspeak support, I changed the
> default RMOO directory from ~/emacs/rmoo to ~/rmoo to make installation
> easier.  I updated your README file to reflect what I had done and expanded
> it to include a "Getting Started" section for new users.  And I recently
> converted the README file to HTML.
> 
> If you are still developing and maintaining RMOO, I am willing to give you
> my code.  If not, may I take over the project?  Who will own the copyright?
> (I noticed that none of your files have a copyright in them anywhere.)
> 
> Thank you,
> Matt Campbell
> 

 When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just
 stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for
 free*".  -  Linus Torvalds