[AC-Admins] Website requests/thoughts

[Pippin Bear]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 04:15:14AM +0100, Pippin Bear wrote:
> So it would appear from their web site.  However, if there any GPLed
> source code goes into that non-free Windows Xchat binary that is not
> written by the people publishing the non-free binary (and for which they
> haven't got permission), they are most likely violating the copyright
> licence of that source code.  That's the purpose of the GPL - to ensure
> that a program cannot be made non-free unless *all* the authors agree.

And of course, there's a lot of disagreement about whether this has
happened...

http://forum.xchat.org/viewtopic.php?t=533
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/08/30/1859210.shtml?tid=117&tid=218

So yes, probably best to avoid recommending Xchat for Windows at the
moment.  *sigh*  It used to be the obvious choice, too. :(

*websearchwebsearch*

Aha!  A few nice pages you might like to check out:

http://www.opensourcewindows.org/

http://www.opensourcemac.org/

And particularly:

http://silverex.info/features/

Pippin