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Source: Joshua Shagam (archiver@hobbes.nmsu.edu)
Moderator: Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com)
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I have updated the MOTD on Hobbes in response to some user 
email regarding some recent *ahem* announcements on here.  
It follows:

There has been some confusion over my most recent message. 
Namely, many sites have decided that they would announce, 
based on my SPECULATION, that they were going to become THE 
official mirror of Hobbes, and that they would fund it 
based on banner advertisements and the like. This is 
unacceptable.

My rationale for GPLing the source was so that anyone who 
didn't like the choice of official mirror could start their 
own and hope they do better. At this point I'm definitely 
going to add in a further restrictive clause: a site 
running Hobbes-Engine may not use banner advertisements or 
other obtrusive means of collecting funds. I would prefer 
that a mirror site only fund the site by giving users an 
actual VALUABLE service, such as selling 6-CD sets of the 
archive.

The site I'm most strongly considering as the official 
mirror has promised me that they would keep Hobbes 
completely free. However, promises and times change, and so 
I'm not completely trusting of this statement forever and 
ever, hence why the source would be under the GPL. (For 
those who don't know, the GPL requires that any derivative 
code be made available - so when this site modifies the 
code for their own uses, they have to make their 
modifications available.)

The recent announcement from Pepper Head is not false, but 
is incredibly misleading, as it implies that they have 
gotten my blessing in becoming the new "official" Hobbes. I 
have never communicated with anyone representing Pepper 
Head, nor do I condone their actions in claiming the 
hobbes.org domain. There is no copyright over the name 
Hobbes (it's just the name of the machine the archive 
happens to be on), and so I have no legal means of removing 
the domain from their control. Until I make a solid 
announcement regarding an official mirror or course of 
action, NO announcement of someone else's should be taken 
as an official word from me.

One thing I should add: My statements are mine, and not 
those of my (current) employer, NMSU, nor are they those of 
my superior, Dave Rocks, who has the final say regarding 
Hobbes.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

I had, in fact, received a proposition from Pepperhead, 
this morning, but after they made their announcement, and I 
immediately declined.  I have fixed the archive news
(http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?dir=/) accordingly.


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