April 21, 2003 - MuTerminal goes from GPL to OBOS!

Thanks to the effort of BiPolar and the generosity of Kazuho Okui and
Takashi Murai we have had donated to OBOS the sources for MuTerminal.
MuTerminal was formerly under the GPL license.  The complete MuTerminal
package as it was originally released on April 2, 2000 (version 2.3) is
preserved in this directory in the original form that I obtained from
bebits.

To simplify integration I have performed some code reorganization and
the initial check-in is not the same as the version 2.3 which is saved
in the muterm-2.3.zip.  As such, please do not remove the muterm-2.3.zip
as it is an important checkpoint.  (and also stands as a thank-you to
Kazuho Okui and Takashi Murai)

Andrew Bachmann

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To: kaz@naan.net
From: "BiPolar" <BiPolar@SoftHome.net>
Subject: about MuTerminal
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:32:27 -0300 ART

Hello!

I am a (very) happy user of your mighty program: Muterminal 2.0 for
BeOS.
My name is Oscar Lesta. I'm Argentinian (just to inform you, not to
make you feel sorry for me, he he!).

I've being using MuTerminal for a while (I have even made some small
changes in the GUI, hiding/unhiding of the scrollbar, rearrangement of
menu items, fixed some localization issues and things like that) and I
think that it is a great replacement for Be's original Terminal app.

I really don't know if you are still developing this program, but I
have to ask you:
Is there any chance of that you change the license from GPL to MIT/BSD?

If you do so, then the OpenBeOS Team (http://open-beos.sourceforge.net)
could use your app as a Terminal Replacement in the future release of
their O.S.

In case you aren't developing it anymore: maybe you can "donate" your
code to beunited.org (http://www.beunited.org). They are making
standars for BeOS compatible O.S., and continuing the development of
several applications for BeOS that original authors have donated to the
BeOS Community.

About the license: I understand that part of your code depends on
libconv, which is under GPL, but that part can be replaced with they
counterpart from OpenBeOS, with is under a MIT/BSD like license.

Thanks for your time, and thanks again for MuTerm!

Your,

Oscar.

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To: BiPolar <BiPolar@SoftHome.net>
From: Kazuho Okui <kaz@naan.jp>
Subject: Re: about MuTerminal
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:46:47 +0900

Hi,

Now, Muterm's licence is GPL, but, I'm not use other GPL code in Muterm.
So, I can change Muterm`s licence to MIT/BSD/AS IS and other.

If you (and OpenBeOS team) adopt Muterm to default terminal on OpenBeOS,
I will welcome it.

I want you to leave only the credit of me and Takashi Murai in that case.

Please contact me, if some may otherwise be able to be helped. However,
since my work is busy recently, I think that coding is hardly made.

Thanks,
-- 
Kazuho Okui<kaz@naan.jp>
