[gopher] Re: Jugtail formerly Jughead

[Chris <chris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Possibly we could look for Fred Barrie or Steven Foster.
Jonzy thought that Fred Barrie still lived in Henderson
Nevada, I haven't been able to confirm that.
I know someone else was working with Archie, any news on 
getting it running or any possibilities on re-licensing it?

Chris




On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:59:51 -0500
"Benn Newman" <newmanbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 09/04/07, Chris <chris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I hope everyone had a great Easter.
> > First I saw in the archives of emails at quux that what I am announcing 
> > already was by Benn Newman some time ago. I never saw it neither did a few 
> > others so, I'll mention it again.
> > (thanks Benn btw)
> >
> > I would like to announce Jugtail, some of you have no doubt noticed it on:
> > http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Gopher/
> >
> > It is the GPL'd release of Jughead (name changed for existing trademark 
> > issues).
> > Personally I, for many reasons, am quite happy to see this. Back in 04 when 
> > I was trying to use Jughead to do things it wasn't really designed to do I 
> > found Mr Jone's new email address. In addition to asking a few questions 
> > and sending him back his original email questionnaire from Jughead I 
> > mentioned maybe porting to FreeBSD and perhaps even GPL.
> > He was suprised to find people still used gopher and surely didn't expect 
> > to get his questionnaire back so many years later :)
> > It was a short time after that I had the pleasure of emailing back and 
> > forth a bit with RMS and metioned to him that I thought it would be neat if 
> > Jughead was a part of the group of GPL'd software.
> > Historically important, made back when gopher was "it" and further under 
> > the license of The University of Utah, which isnt a free software but came 
> > close, involving Archie Comics as well, a large corporate entity.
> > After all if one considered Archie, Jughead and Veronica, the search engine 
> > equivalents of the first stone wheels, then we ought to set a few next to a 
> > new Hoosier race tire yes? :)
> > To my suprise Mr Stallman ask for Jonzys email address and just like that 
> > emailed him (I was delighted to be cc'd). How neat, for here was two people 
> > I really do consider hero's of mine discussing things like emacs and gcc 
> > and jughead and all :)
> > As it was, it took a long time and alot of work, waiting and effort by 
> > people working behind the scenes, all of us unaware (myself included as my 
> > only involvment was to occasionally pester and ask if it was "done yet?"). 
> > And now its preserved and free and now no matter what for ever salvaged 
> > from being lost. I think thats just great!
> >
> > Thanks Jonzy!
> > Thanks Mr Stallman!
> >
> > Veronica is next?
> > Perhaps we could in addition to saving such software as this, move to get 
> > it under the GPL.
> > This way it would be further saved, I am refering to all the wonderful old 
> > software we collect.
> 
> Ten or so months ago, I sent a letter to the University of Nevada
> computing support department (or whatever their fancy marketing term
> for it is). I never got a reply.
> 
> > Happy Gophering!
> > Orintz
> > gopher://hal3000.cx
> >
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> 
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