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Old March 25th, 2001
konrad_h konrad_h is offline
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Cool Itīs coming ... a new client based on Furi

I finally did it. I entered the Furi-source and stripped it off thos chat-panels and classes. Now i got a new client running. I also chaged the packet-structure and therefor parts of the code.

My problem here is this: William W. Wong (the developer of Furi) doesnīt want help writing Furi and there has been no update for over a year. I surely will modify the source quite a lot and I donīt think it is reasonable to still call it "Furi" afterwards (in case Wong comes up with a new version weīd have quite a conflict here).

Does anybody know how the GNU GPL copes with such a situation. Iīd like to release a whole new client under a diferent name which would only be "based on Furi", but I donīt want to get into a conflict with Wong or the GNU Foundation.

Any advice is welcome. I will not release my client until I get this thing straight.
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