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From [email protected] Fri Jun 19 13:20:32 1992 Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:2423 news.groups:52904 comp.admin.policy:1869 comp.software-eng:9547 comp.unix.programmer:6483 comp.os.msdos.programmer:16297 comp.windows.ms.programmer:12220 comp.sys.mac.programmer:41377 Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.admin.policy,comp.software-eng,comp.unix.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.windows.ms.programmer,comp.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer Path: uunet!bounce-back From: [email protected] (Marc S. Gibian) Subject: RFD: comp.software.licensing Message-ID: <[email protected]> Followup-To: news.groups Sender: [email protected] (David C Lawrence) Organization: Software Licensing Technology Group Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1992 04:06:24 GMT Approved: [email protected] Lines: 72  RFD: comp.software.licensing  Request for discussion regarding the creation of:  comp.software.licensing -------------------------------------------------    NOTE: Please everyone, do *not* respond by email to me or any   others unless specifically requested to do so, i.e. offline   discussions or voting when the time comes.  Note also that I   check the newsgroup "news.groups" daily for new discussion items   and am keeping a discussion file that gets all discussion items   appended to it.  A summary will be posted in the upcoming "Call   for Votes (CFV)".  All current discussion posts pertaining to   this issue may be found in "news.groups".  Proposed Charter ----------------  This newsgroup will be a forum for discussing software licensing technology.  It is proposed as an UNMODERATED group to encourage the free flow of ideas and experiences with this relatively new and very important technology.  Areas of discussion should include:  1. Standards in the area, initially including but by no means limited to the LS API (License Service) that was announced a few weeks ago and endorsed by many significant players in the software product arena.  2. Experience as developers including software licensing in products, using commercial software licensing products, or home grown solutions.  3. Experience distributing software licensed with software licensing technology, as well as the distribution of licenses.  4. Experience as administrators of systems running software licensed with software licensing technology.  5. Experience as users of software licensed with software licensing technology.  Given the breadth of areas impacted by this technology, there is no existing newsgroup which includes the audiences interested in this technology, and thus this proposal for creating the comp.software.licensing group.  The tenative date for closure of the discussion period is July 9, 1992.  How to respond or take part in this discussion: -----------------------------------------------  1.  Just go to the news group "news.groups" and post your discussion articles there.  Please make sure the post includes the new newsgroup title "comp.software.licensing" in the subject line so all participants can more easily find your article.  2.  Discussion items are totally open, but usually include ideas on the group charter and the name and classification of the new newsgroup.  What's the next step: ---------------------  1.  Keep watching for new posts to "news.announce.newgroups" and in this newsgroup for further calls for discussion and the up and coming "Call for Votes (CFV)".  2.  During the 30 day voting period, you may request a copy of the complete, unadulterated file containing all discussion posts, which will result in me emailing the file to you.  3.  Unless the discussion causes an unexpected delay, the call for votes should be posted around July 10, 1992.  As per usenet rules, followups are directed to news.groups  From [email protected] Thu Jul 16 14:41:19 1992 Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:2534 news.groups:54294 comp.misc:17087 comp.unix.misc:5152 comp.unix.admin:7551 misc.legal.computing:1353 comp.admin.policy:1895 comp.software-eng:9993 Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.admin,misc.legal.computing,comp.admin.policy,comp.software-eng Path: uunet!bounce-back From: [email protected] (Marc S. Gibian) Subject: CFV: comp.software.licensing Message-ID: <[email protected]> Followup-To: poster Sender: [email protected] (David C Lawrence) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1992 18:34:19 GMT Approved: [email protected] Lines: 101  ************* 1st Call For Votes on comp.software.licensing ***************  OFFICIAL VOTING DAYS --------------------           Start Date: July  16, 1992            End Date: August 6, 1992    Votes received on or in-between these dates will be counted.  The time/date stamp contained in the "From:" line of YOUR email will be used to determine your offical time of voting.  MY local time or the date/time set on my local hub when your email is received will not be used.  Voting starts at 12:00:01am on the "Start Date", and ends at 11:59:59pm of the "End Date" (00:00:01 and 23:59:59 for those using 24 hour notation).  ------------------------------------------------------------------ The 30-day discussion period is now up, so it's time for VOTING!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------  The discussion that took place contained no major objections and no clear desire to make any changes to the original RFD.  I have appended the RFD, minus disucssion instructions, to this CFV and will be happy to forward all postings that where made as part of the discussion upon email request ([email protected]).  ---------------------- How to cast your vote: ----------------------  1) Send your vote via email only, using the proper SUBJECT LINE to the  following address:          [email protected]  2) Yes votes should use the following subject header, or something similiar:  Subject: Yes, create new comp.software.licensing newsgroup  3) No votes should use the subject header, or something similiar:  Subject: No, do not create comp.software.licensing newsgroup  4) NOTE: No content to the email message is necessary and will be ignored if it exists.  This is because the vote is either for complete acceptance or complete rejection of the creation of the new newsgroup called "comp.software.licensing"  5) All votes will be acknowledge via email.  6) The results will be posted a few days after then close of the voting period, to let email find its way through the network.  7) As per the rules, if there are more than 100 yes votes than no votes by that date AND at least 2/3 of the total number of valid votes received are yes votes, the newsgroup will be created.  ============================================================================= RFD: comp.software.licensing  Request for discussion regarding the creation of:  comp.software.licensing -------------------------------------------------    NOTE: Please everyone, do *not* respond by email to me or any   others unless specifically requested to do so, i.e. offline   discussions or voting when the time comes.  Note also that I   check the newsgroup "news.groups" daily for new discussion items   and am keeping a discussion file that gets all discussion items   appended to it.  A summary will be posted in the upcoming "Call   for Votes (CFV)".  All current discussion posts pertaining to   this issue may be found in "news.groups".  Proposed Charter ----------------  This newsgroup will be a forum for discussing software licensing technology.  It is proposed as an UNMODERATED group to encourage the free flow of ideas and experiences with this relatively new and very important technology.  Areas of discussion should include:  1. Standards in the area, initially including but by no means limited to the LS API (License Service) that was announced a few weeks ago and endorsed by many significant players in the software product arena.  2. Experience as developers including software licensing in products, using commercial software licensing products, or home grown solutions.  3. Experience distributing software licensed with software licensing technology, as well as the distribution of licenses.  4. Experience as administrators of systems running software licensed with software licensing technology.  5. Experience as users of software licensed with software licensing technology.  Given the breadth of areas impacted by this technology, there is no existing newsgroup which includes the audiences interested in this technology, and thus this proposal for creating the comp.software.licensing group.  From [email protected] Tue Jul 28 17:19:15 1992 Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:2571 news.groups:54754 comp.misc:17186 comp.unix.misc:5262 comp.unix.admin:7735 misc.legal.computing:1545 comp.admin.policy:1911 comp.software-eng:10121 Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.admin,misc.legal.computing,comp.admin.policy,comp.software-eng Path: uunet!bounce-back From: [email protected] (Marc S. Gibian) Subject: 2nd CFV: comp.software.licensing Message-ID: <[email protected]> Followup-To: poster Sender: [email protected] (David C Lawrence) Organization: Software Licensing Technology Group Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:24:55 GMT Approved: [email protected] Lines: 106  ************* 2nd Call For Votes on comp.software.licensing ***************  OFFICIAL VOTING DAYS --------------------           Start Date: July  16, 1992            End Date: August 6, 1992    Votes received on or in-between these dates will be counted.  The time/date stamp contained in the "From:" line of YOUR email will be used to determine your offical time of voting.  MY local time or the date/time set on my local hub when your email is received will not be used.  Voting starts at 12:00:01am on the "Start Date", and ends at 11:59:59pm of the "End Date" (00:00:01 and 23:59:59 for those using 24 hour notation).  ------------------------------------------------------------------ Voting started on July 16, so it's time to get those votes in!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------  The discussion that took place contained no major objections and no clear desire to make any changes to the original RFD.  I have appended the RFD, minus disucssion instructions, to this CFV and will be happy to forward all postings that where made as part of the discussion upon email request ([email protected]).  ---------------------- How to cast your vote: ----------------------  1) Send your vote via email only, using the proper SUBJECT LINE to the  following address:          [email protected]  2) Yes votes should use the following subject header, or something similiar:  Subject: Yes, create new comp.software.licensing newsgroup  3) No votes should use the subject header, or something similiar:  Subject: No, do not create comp.software.licensing newsgroup  4) NOTE: No content to the email message is necessary and will be ignored if it exists.  This is because the vote is either for complete acceptance or complete rejection of the creation of the new newsgroup called "comp.software.licensing"  5) All votes will be acknowledge via email.    (please vote as soon as you are ready, all votes received between  July 25 and August 2 will be acknowledged as soon as possible after  August 3... I will be around, but not able to check my email during  that interval)  6) The results will be posted a few days after then close of the voting period, to let email find its way through the network.  7) As per the rules, if there are more than 100 yes votes than no votes by that date AND at least 2/3 of the total number of valid votes received are yes votes, the newsgroup will be created.  ============================================================================= RFD: comp.software.licensing  Request for discussion regarding the creation of:  comp.software.licensing -------------------------------------------------    NOTE: Please everyone, do *not* respond by email to me or any   others unless specifically requested to do so, i.e. offline   discussions or voting when the time comes.  Note also that I   check the newsgroup "news.groups" daily for new discussion items   and am keeping a discussion file that gets all discussion items   appended to it.  A summary will be posted in the upcoming "Call   for Votes (CFV)".  All current discussion posts pertaining to   this issue may be found in "news.groups".  Proposed Charter ----------------  This newsgroup will be a forum for discussing software licensing technology.  It is proposed as an UNMODERATED group to encourage the free flow of ideas and experiences with this relatively new and very important technology.  Areas of discussion should include:  1. Standards in the area, initially including but by no means limited to the LS API (License Service) that was announced a few weeks ago and endorsed by many significant players in the software product arena.  2. Experience as developers including software licensing in products, using commercial software licensing products, or home grown solutions.  3. Experience distributing software licensed with software licensing technology, as well as the distribution of licenses.  4. Experience as administrators of systems running software licensed with software licensing technology.  5. Experience as users of software licensed with software licensing technology.  Given the breadth of areas impacted by this technology, there is no existing newsgroup which includes the audiences interested in this technology, and thus this proposal for creating the comp.software.licensing group.  From [email protected] Tue Aug  4 16:11:14 1992 Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:2592 news.groups:54979 comp.misc:17261 comp.unix.misc:5324 comp.unix.admin:7824 misc.legal.computing:1779 comp.admin.policy:1930 comp.software-eng:10180 Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.admin,misc.legal.computing,comp.admin.policy,comp.software-eng Path: uunet!bounce-back From: [email protected] (Marc S. Gibian) Subject: 3rd CFV: comp.software.licensing  Message-ID: <[email protected]> Followup-To: poster Sender: [email protected] (David C Lawrence) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1992 18:38:57 GMT Approved: [email protected] Lines: 102  *********** 3rd and Final Call For Votes on comp.software.licensing ***********  OFFICIAL VOTING DAYS --------------------           Start Date: July  16, 1992            End Date: August 6, 1992     Votes received on or in-between these dates will be counted.  The time/date stamp contained in the "From:" line of YOUR email will be used to determine your offical time of voting.  MY local time or the date/time set on my local hub when your email is received will not be used.  Voting starts at 12:00:01am on the "Start Date", and ends at 11:59:59pm of the "End Date" (00:00:01 and 23:59:59 for those using 24 hour notation).  ------------------------------------------------------------------ Only a few voting days remain so get those votes in now!! ------------------------------------------------------------------  The discussion that took place contained no major objections and no clear desire to make any changes to the original RFD.  I have appended the RFD, minus disucssion instructions, to this CFV and will be happy to forward all postings that where made as part of the discussion upon email request ([email protected]).  ---------------------- How to cast your vote: ----------------------  1) Send your vote via email only, using the proper SUBJECT LINE to the  following address:          [email protected]  2) Yes votes should use the following subject header, or something similiar:  Subject: Yes, create new comp.software.licensing newsgroup  3) No votes should use the subject header, or something similiar:  Subject: No, do not create comp.software.licensing newsgroup  4) NOTE: No content to the email message is necessary and will be ignored if it exists.  This is because the vote is either for complete acceptance or complete rejection of the creation of the new newsgroup called "comp.software.licensing"  5) All votes will be acknowledge via email.    6) The results will be posted a few days after then close of the voting period, to let email find its way through the network.  7) As per the rules, if there are more than 100 yes votes than no votes by that date AND at least 2/3 of the total number of valid votes received are yes votes, the newsgroup will be created.  ============================================================================= RFD: comp.software.licensing  Request for discussion regarding the creation of:  comp.software.licensing -------------------------------------------------    NOTE: Please everyone, do *not* respond by email to me or any   others unless specifically requested to do so, i.e. offline   discussions or voting when the time comes.  Note also that I   check the newsgroup "news.groups" daily for new discussion items   and am keeping a discussion file that gets all discussion items   appended to it.  A summary will be posted in the upcoming "Call   for Votes (CFV)".  All current discussion posts pertaining to   this issue may be found in "news.groups".  Proposed Charter ----------------  This newsgroup will be a forum for discussing software licensing technology.  It is proposed as an UNMODERATED group to encourage the free flow of ideas and experiences with this relatively new and very important technology.  Areas of discussion should include:  1. Standards in the area, initially including but by no means limited to the LS API (License Service) that was announced a few weeks ago and endorsed by many significant players in the software product arena.  2. Experience as developers including software licensing in products, using commercial software licensing products, or home grown solutions.  3. Experience distributing software licensed with software licensing technology, as well as the distribution of licenses.  4. Experience as administrators of systems running software licensed with software licensing technology.  5. Experience as users of software licensed with software licensing technology.  Given the breadth of areas impacted by this technology, there is no existing newsgroup which includes the audiences interested in this technology, and thus this proposal for creating the comp.software.licensing group.  From [email protected] Fri Aug  7 20:55:45 1992 Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:2605 news.groups:55141 comp.misc:17312 comp.unix.misc:5386 Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.un Path: uunet!bounce-back From: [email protected] (Marc S. Gibian) Subject: RESULT: comp.software.licensing passes 140: 28 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Followup-To: news.groups Sender: [email protected] (David C Lawrence) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1992 23:34:00 GMT Approved: [email protected] Lines: 178  Its official, the comp.software.licensing vote has concluded and the final tally is 140 yes votes and 28 no.  This meets the 100 more yes than no requirement, and represents better than a 2/3 yes vote.  Therefore, after the standard waiting period the comp.software.licensing newgroup will be sent.  *********** Yes Votes *****************  "(Beat Brunner)" <[email protected]> "D. Keith Herron" <[email protected]> "Gordon A. Sterling" <[email protected]> "Ian Pugsley" <"pugsley ian"@a1.meo78b.meo.MTS.dec.com> "Keith Anderson: Software marketing, Australia & New Zealand 30-Jul-1992 1056"  "Peter-Ch. Gentz +49 30 314 23897" <[email protected]> "Phil Tuttiett, NZDRI" <[email protected]> "Rob Talley (NetAdmin)"  [email protected] (Dave Cline) [email protected] <[email protected]> Alan Cox <[email protected]> Alexander Mihai Popovici <[email protected]> Andrew Stoker <[email protected]> B.J. 20-Jul-1992 0741 <[email protected]> [email protected] (Bill Petro) Bob Wyman <[email protected]> Chris Dean <[email protected]> David Erb <[email protected]> [email protected] (Don Miller) EWILTS <[email protected]> [email protected] (Ylitalo Erkki Hiomo8/4 p.50603357) Ed Trumbull <[email protected]> Eric Shepherd <[email protected]> Gerri Moriarty 381-1961 04-Aug-1992 1257 <[email protected]> Hugh LaMaster -- RCS <[email protected]> Janet Jackson <[email protected]> Jason May <[email protected]> Jeff Jensen <[email protected]> Jim Ault <[email protected]> Jim Prall  John Decatur KA2QHD <[email protected]> Lewis W Kellum <[email protected]> Liz Allen <[email protected]> Mark Russell <[email protected]> Michael R Linksvayer <[email protected]> Paul Hudson <[email protected]> Peter Hermann <[email protected]> [email protected] (Ari Rabinowitz, WorkStations, x6518) Richard Elling <[email protected]> Robert Holibaugh <[email protected]> Roger Phillips <[email protected]> Ryan Bayne <[email protected]> Stewart Daniels <[email protected]> Tak <[email protected]> Terry Carroll <[email protected]> Thomas Hagadorn (LRAD/FRB) <[email protected]> Timothy VanFosson <[email protected]> Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <[email protected]> Vern Cole -- Systems Manager <[email protected]> Wayne Sanders-Unrein 714-952-5773 17-Jul-1992 1019 <[email protected]> [email protected] (Lanfranco Albani) [email protected] [email protected] (Andy Finkenstadt) [email protected] (Austin G. Hastings) [email protected] (Andrea Babini) [email protected] (Babu Turumella) [email protected] [email protected] (Brian Casey) [email protected] (Brendan Kehoe) [email protected] (Brian Smithson) [email protected] [email protected] creatv::utrop1::zwet (04-Aug-1992 1538) [email protected] (Dan Busarow) [email protected] (Dinah McNutt {sysadminzon}) [email protected] (Keith Rice) [email protected] (Peter Drivas) [email protected] (David Van Beveren) [email protected] (Dan Wallach) [email protected] (Edward Nemirovsky) [email protected] (Eric Black) [email protected] (Rod Erickson) [email protected] [email protected] (Gregory G. Woodbury) [email protected] (Greg Black) [email protected] (Gonzalo Diethelm) [email protected] [email protected] (Brian Hayes 74-35 x65129) [email protected] (Jonathan B. Horen) [email protected] (Ilan Cohen) [email protected] (Brad Cox) [email protected] [email protected] (muir james f) [email protected] (John Nunnely) [email protected] (John McCombs) [email protected] [email protected] (John Gallant) [email protected] (John Kalucki) [email protected] (Jon Alperin) [email protected] [email protected] (Kevin McCarty) [email protected] (Leonard Mills) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (Mark Reay) [email protected] (Dave Marra DTN 226-6893 04-Aug-1992 0627) [email protected] (Alex Martelli) [email protected] (Malcolm Mladenovic) [email protected] (Mark Almeida) [email protected] (Bert Medley) [email protected] [email protected] (Mike Stefanik) [email protected] (Marc Laprade) [email protected] (Mary Bennett) [email protected] (William Moxley) [email protected] (Larry Soule) [email protected] (Bill Nickless) [email protected] (Otto Heuer #3) [email protected] (David Hendrix) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (Rick Vandenberg) [email protected] (Roger B.A. Klorese) [email protected] (ruman) rwl%[email protected] (Bob Lord) [email protected] (Marco Sandri) [email protected] (Steven C. Blair "Unix Network Services") [email protected] (Stefan Eggers) [email protected] (STEFAN P ROTH) [email protected] (Steve Rogers) [email protected] [email protected] (Sascha Wildner) [email protected] (Todd Anthony Nathan) [email protected] (Trevor Paquette) [email protected] (Timo Lehtinen) [email protected] (Chris Turbeville) [email protected] (STEVE TYNOR) uysal%[email protected] (Mustafa Uysal) [email protected] (John Wiley) [email protected] (Joseph M DeAngelo) [email protected] (Wolfgang Solfrank)  ****************** NO Votes *********************  Bjorn Knutsson <[email protected]> Ed Schwalenberg <[email protected]> Greg Lindahl <[email protected]> Jan Dj{rv <[email protected]> Joan Eslinger <[email protected]> Neil W Rickert <[email protected]> Roland Kaltefleiter <[email protected]> The System <[email protected]> Tom Fitzgerald <[email protected]> [email protected] [email protected] (Pete Akerson - akerson%[email protected]) [email protected] [email protected] (Carl Rigney) [email protected] (Chip Rosenthal) [email protected] (Gregory G. Woodbury) [email protected] (Oliver Fink) [email protected] (Kim DeVaughn) [email protected] [email protected] (Bill Owens) [email protected] (Joel Plutchak) [email protected] (Richard H. Miller) [email protected] (Dennis S. Breckenridge) [email protected] (Richard Kulawiec) [email protected] (Sergio Stewart) [email protected] (Stephen Harpster) [email protected] (timothy shimeall) [email protected] (Tim Szeliga) [email protected] (Allan Weimer)