[Savannah-hackers] Re: NhProxy and copyright of window.doc

[Janet Walz]

Ali writes:

>Dear NetHack devteam,
>
>It's that time of year again when I hassle you about NetHack Proxy :-)
>
>First, just a heads up that I'm unbundling the code to implement the  
>NhExt protocol from Slash'EM into a new package called nhproxy which  
>can be used both by NetHack & Slash'EM and by external window  
>interfaces like GtkHack.

Sounds good.

>As part of this process, I am tidying up the copyright and licensing of  
>the code with the help of the savannah hackers (I hope to host nhproxy  
>on savannah in due course). One of the few remaining issues is the  
>copyright of window.doc (which I used as a basis for the NhExt protocol
>specification). I have been back through the history of NetHack and I  
>believe that I've got the copyright years correct but I'm only guessing  
>that Mike should be the copyright holder. If I'm wrong, I would be  
>grateful if you could let me know so that I can correct it.
>
>This is what I am currently planning to include in ext_protocol.html:
>
>Copyright (C) 1993, 1996, 1999  Mike Stephenson

Having it be years of release is probably fine.  It appears that actual
writing can be ascribed to the period between 1990 and 1993, with the
first draft by Dave Cohrs expanded beyond tty by Dean Luick (and many
other fingers later).  I'd hoped one of them would comment on whether
they want credit/blame for it, but without that I'd go for "David Cohrs"
like many of the windowing code files.

>Oh, and if you should happen to have time to discuss adding the proxy  
>window interface to NetHack this year, do let me know!
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Ali.
>