AgNet - silverware Networking Interface Kit

by silver Harloe

Copyright

All contents of the AgNet distribution are Copyright (c) 2000-2002, by silver Harloe. All rights are reserved.

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or

b) the "Artistic License" which comes with this kit.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details.

Any server you write may be licensed under your own terms (after all, you have to write it!). If you link to the baseserver, you may (using the Artistic license under my interpretation) still license it under your own terms. However, if you bundle AgNet with your server (rather than simply telling people where to go get it), you must provide AgNet source or offer to provide it, and keep these Copyright terms intact in the AgNet sources.

While it's good karma to provide your server under an open source license, you are under no obligation (even if you link to my baseserver). However, the easiest way to protect a server product of your own would be to simply not distribute it. Afterall, if you provide a server with a good service, you can just charge people for using it. Open Source isn't about not making money, it's about keeping software from becomming illegal to write.

Authors

• silver Harloe - silverharloe at sourceforge - primary design, author of the C and Perl code, and documentation
• Jon Abbey - designer of the debugmalloc library
• Steven Newton - cratermoon at sourceforge - edits and commentary

Testers

To my knowledge, the only people who have actually tried to compile and test the code are Steven Newton and Robert Cope.

Acknowledgements

silver wishes to thank:

• Dan Harris for inspiring me to write silverchat in the first place
• Matt Bush for all his help and tips when I was a newbie programmer, and for his numerous patches to silverchat
• Steven Newton and Jason Stevens for introducing me to Design Patterns
• W. Richard Stevens for writing APUE and Unix Network Programming, which were absolutely necessary to my ever getting any of this written
• Rob Reesor for not firing me while I took so much time from work to write this
• The silverchat community for putting up with me and keeping me on my toes
• Mite and Loafie for keeping my lap and toes warm while I coded
• And mostly Conni and Ed Harloe for giving me life, sending me to college, letting me do my own thing, and being such good examples

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