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  15     <B>Andrew Church</B>
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  19     <I>Tue Dec 25 22:11:53 PST 2001</I>
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  34 <PRE>&gt;&gt;<i> Is the Alpha distributed with some kind of &quot;not public&quot;
  35 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> license ?
  36 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> I do know the term &quot;use it at your own risk&quot;, but this
  37 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> &quot;forbidden to use on a live network&quot; is a new one.
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  39      The license is the GPL, the same as it has always been, but the only
  40 reason I'm making it publicly available at all while it's still in alpha is
  41 to get help from _experienced_ users in fixing the remaining major problems
  42 before I take it to beta status and do a full-fledged release.  (From the
  43 response I've seen so far I'm half inclined to take it down again.)
  44
  45 &gt;<i>So i think too
  46 </I>&gt;<i>Then i ask me, why a Alpha is Released to download from a Mainsite
  47 </I>&gt;<i>with a BIG Advertising link.
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  49      Because that's the only way to let people know who might want to help
  50 with an alpha test.  You might also note that there's a fairly large and
  51 obvious warning--on two consecutive pages, no less!--before you can
  52 actually download the alpha version.
  53
  54      Please remember that I have NO obligation whatsoever to provide any
  55 sort of &quot;service&quot; to you or even to publish IRC Services at all.  The only
  56 thing I get out of Services is appreciation from users, which includes the
  57 recognition that I do this on my own free time without any sort of
  58 compensation other than the thanks of users for creating it.  (Frankly, I
  59 would probably be a much happier person if I hadn't devoted many thousands
  60 of hours over six years to Services, but oh well.)  Thus, I do NOT
  61 appreciate people ignoring warnings I put up explicitly to prevent these
  62 kinds of questions/complaints.
  63
  64      Please try to act more responsibly in the future.  (That applies to
  65 everyone.)
  66
  67   --Andrew Church
  68     <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices-coding">achurch at achurch.org</A>
  69     <A HREF="http://achurch.org/">http://achurch.org/</A>
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