1April 21, 2003 - MuTerminal goes from GPL to Haiku!
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3Thanks to the effort of BiPolar and the generosity of Kazuho Okui and
4Takashi Murai we have had donated to Haiku the sources for MuTerminal.
5MuTerminal was formerly under the GPL license.  The complete MuTerminal
6package as it was originally released on April 2, 2000 (version 2.3) is
7preserved in this directory in the original form that I obtained from
8bebits.
9
10Andrew Bachmann
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14To: kaz@naan.net
15From: "BiPolar" <BiPolar@SoftHome.net>
16Subject: about MuTerminal
17Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:32:27 -0300 ART
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19Hello!
20
21I am a (very) happy user of your mighty program: Muterminal 2.0 for
22BeOS.
23My name is Oscar Lesta. I'm Argentinian (just to inform you, not to
24make you feel sorry for me, he he!).
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26I've being using MuTerminal for a while (I have even made some small
27changes in the GUI, hiding/unhiding of the scrollbar, rearrangement of
28menu items, fixed some localization issues and things like that) and I
29think that it is a great replacement for Be's original Terminal app.
30
31I really don't know if you are still developing this program, but I
32have to ask you:
33Is there any chance of that you change the license from GPL to MIT/BSD?
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35If you do so, then the Haiku Team (https://www.haiku-os.org)
36could use your app as a Terminal Replacement in the future release of
37their O.S.
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39In case you aren't developing it anymore: maybe you can "donate" your
40code to beunited.org (http://www.beunited.org). They are making
41standars for BeOS compatible O.S., and continuing the development of
42several applications for BeOS that original authors have donated to the
43BeOS Community.
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45About the license: I understand that part of your code depends on
46libconv, which is under GPL, but that part can be replaced with they
47counterpart from Haiku, with is under a MIT/BSD like license.
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49Thanks for your time, and thanks again for MuTerm!
50
51Your,
52
53Oscar.
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57To: BiPolar <BiPolar@SoftHome.net>
58From: Kazuho Okui <kaz@naan.jp>
59Subject: Re: about MuTerminal
60Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:46:47 +0900
61
62Hi,
63
64Now, Muterm's licence is GPL, but, I'm not use other GPL code in Muterm.
65So, I can change Muterm`s licence to MIT/BSD/AS IS and other.
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67If you (and Haiku Team) adopt Muterm to default terminal on Haiku,
68I will welcome it.
69
70I want you to leave only the credit of me and Takashi Murai in that case.
71
72Please contact me, if some may otherwise be able to be helped. However,
73since my work is busy recently, I think that coding is hardly made.
74
75Thanks,
76-- 
77Kazuho Okui<kaz@naan.jp>
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