November 10 2005

On November 2005 Glulxa's license has changed to GPL, as Glulxa
had previously no specific license. This has been done under the 
consentiment of the original copyright holder: Simon Stapleton.

No information has been changed in documentation, so if you find some
disagreement between readme file contents and the license agreement
included at COPYING file please forget about what readme file says, 
just take care of COPYING file.

These are e-mails regarding the license change (Simon also gave 
premission to make them public), I'm not including Carlos' e-mails 
as Simon quoted properly them in his answers:

email 1
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On 21 Oct 2005, at 21:53, Carlos Sánchez wrote:

> Hello Simon,
>
>   This mail is regarding glulxa license, if you don't know what
> Glulxa is surely you're not the Simon Stapleton I'm looking for, in
> that case sorry to bother you me, otherwise...

Yep, you got the right guy

> For some time I have been using glulxa for a spanish IF engine that
> generates glulx assembler code, later assembled by glulxa, but we
> (there are more than one person involved) have detected some bugs
> in the glulxa's source code and corrected it, and as there is not
> license file in glulxa's package, we don't know if we can
> release that. Also, we've seen you have not typed code for glulxa
> for a long time, and that glulxa's page has dissapeared from
> geocities. Also, glulxa is not in the if-archive... so we wonder if
> you would like to change glulxa's license to GPL, so we can take
> rid of it. Please, let us know about your decision and, if you
> don't care, we ourselves will include the GPL license into the new
> released glulxa.

As I recall, I released it either public domain or BSD licensed.  The
actual licensing terms migt be found by searching the raif archives,
but in case they are gone forever : Feel free to do what the hell you
like with it, including GPLing it or whatever you like.  I'm glad to
see that something I wrote as a laugh is actually of some marginal
use to somebody.  It also gives me a warm fuzzy feeling that people
do actually care about doing the right things WRT licensing.  You get
a big smile for that.

> If you give us permission we would need also permission to publish
> the mail where you give us permission :)

Sure, that too.

>
> Thanks in advance & best regards,
> Carlos.

Have fun

Simon (ex simon@tufty.co.uk, occasionally tufty on ifMud)

email 2
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> Ummm... I've tried to find it using Google Groups but I couldn't  find
> anything but announces of releases, whose links don't work. If  you
> can let me know about other places to find I will be glad of  knowing
> about them. If I cannot find that license I will release it  under GPL
> license, including this mail I am answering as your  permission to do
> that.


 Yeah, go for it.  I suspect pretty much every link to it is dead  these
 days.  Take the code, treat it as your own, license it how you  like.