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Subject: Re: *** New Winboard version 4.3.0 *** released

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 06:08:15 02/05/03

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On February 05, 2003 at 04:19:05, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 05, 2003 at 04:10:37, Matthias Gemuh wrote:
>
>>On February 05, 2003 at 03:15:53, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote:
>>
>>>?????
>>>Over 1 year no new version relased. I thought, ok, nobody want devel WB/X-board
>>>versions. So i take 4.3.0. But, ok if you're want we can call it
>>>winboard-4.3.0-dm or so. And i send tim a e-mail. I know what GPL is and patched
>>>version. I don't understand you. Some people ask me: "Hey, it is possible..."
>>>and this is the work.
>>>I want only give some people a better version. Nothing more. And what's the
>>>answer ?
>>>
>>>
>>>DAniel
>>
>>
>>
>>The answer ? Whatever name you choose should not include "Winboard" !!!
>>
>>
>>/Matthias.
>
>Not including winboard is worse because in that case people may get the
>impression that it is an original program.
>
>Uri

Right. A while back, Marc S. William  released  a enhanced version of winboard
and he named it "Winboardplus", I don't think Tim Mann had problems. Eventually
though the code in Winboardplus was merged into Winboard...

Aaron





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