🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 2018-05-23, Joe Makowiec wrote:
> For those of us who got into personal computers in the late 80s and early
> 90s, this is momentous news:
>
> http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/the-eudora-email-client-source-code/
>
> Qualcomm donated the whole thing - source, trademarks, domain names - to
> the Computer History Museum. From the page above:
>
>     The discussion with Qualcomm for the release of the Eudora source
>     code by the company's museum took five years. In the end, they
>     decided not to simply grant a license, but to transfer ownership
>     of the code, the Eudora trademarks, the copyrights, and the Eudora
>     domain names to the Computer History Museum (CHM). The transfer
>     agreement allows us to publish the code under the very liberal BSD
>     open source license, which means that anyone can use it for either
>     personal or commercial purposes. 

Which also means we get the same rights.  Noone has put it on GitHub
yet, though.

More from the page:

    The source code we are distributing is what we received from Qualcomm,
    with only the following changes:

      * addition of the CHM copyright notice and the BSD license
      * sanitization of “bad words”, mostly in comments, as requested
        by Qualcomm
      * removal of third-party software that neither the museum nor
        Qualcomm has the right to distribute

I'm suddenly more interested in the missing "bad words" than in the
software itself.  The phrase "/mostly/ in comments" is also
interesting.

/Jorgen

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