Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Free Go Server - savannah.nongnu.org

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 10:58:52PM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
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> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
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> David Rysdam <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Free Go Server
> System name: fgs
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:

> We would like to create a Free Go Server.  There are three main
> servers out there now.  One, KGS (kgs.kiseido.com), has a
> proprietary server and client.  Another, IGS
> (http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/), has a proprietary server with
> many Free clients.  IGS also reportedly has many other freedom
> problems, such as users being banned for talking about verboten
> topics.  The last, NNGS, is open 

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> on both the client and server, but
> suffers from some problems.  In particular, not many clients that
> claim to support it support it well and it also doesn't have some of
> the more advanced features that have drawn people to KGS (chatrooms,
> pictures, online game history, etc).


> 
> Our plan is to fork the NNGS code, then build our own ideas on top of it.  
> Because some of these ideas would break those few NNGS clients that work, 
> submitting these as modifications to the NNGS people isn't feasible.  NNGS is 
> GPL and the code is available at http://nngs.cosmic.org/src/.

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Can you assure me that this will be done when forking the code?

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Regards,

Rudy

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