April 21, 2003 - MuTerminal goes from GPL to Haiku! Thanks to the effort of BiPolar and the generosity of Kazuho Okui and Takashi Murai we have had donated to Haiku 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. Andrew Bachmann ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: kaz@naan.net From: "BiPolar" 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 Haiku Team (https://www.haiku-os.org) 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 Haiku, with is under a MIT/BSD like license. Thanks for your time, and thanks again for MuTerm! Your, Oscar. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: BiPolar From: Kazuho Okui 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 Haiku Team) adopt Muterm to default terminal on Haiku, 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