Re: Starting Linux BBS
  By: Maurice Kinal to Rob Swindell on Thu Oct 21 2004 06:35 pm

 >  RS> The vast majority of the code is GPL while some libraries are LGPL
 >  RS> (less
 >  RS> restrictive than GPL).
 >  RS> http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/lesser.html
 > 
 > I found all that out while reading some of the code.  Like I said the one fi
 > referred to isn't in the archive and without reading the code it isn't obvio

There are references and links to http://www.synchro.net/copyright.html all
over the place.

 >  The README.TXT and the FILE_ID.DIZ make no referance to any licencing issue
 > whatsoever.  Also there is no docmentation other then pointers to
 > documentation.  Supposing someone didn't have internet access.  Wouldn't it 
 > wise to have a small blurb on how to compile it?

The files you're referring to are included in the Win32 distribution and most
Win32 sysops aren't interested or equipped to compile from source. If you're
looking for Synchronet-Unix, you want to start here:
http://synchro.net/docs/sbbsunix.txt (includes details on how to compile it).

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