Re: Give Noisetracker credit to the FTA (DAMN STRAIGHT!)

["Charles T. Turley" <cturley@wco.com>]

For the record David 'Captain Harlock' Scott, get a CLUE and get the 
facts correct PLEASE - Noise Tracker v1.0 was done by the FTA and it was 
also declared by none other than Joe Kohn to have been a program placed 
into public domain from the FTA, v1.1 was from Ian Schmidt (Ian obtained 
the src. codes - indirectly via me - BTW), v1.3 thru v2.0 were from 
1WSW, they were legal updates, also sanctioned by, with the knowledge, 
help and the blessings of the original author - Olivier Goguel and were 
not rip offs or sector edits in any respect what-so-ever. They were 
compiled by our 1WSW programmer Dave Swanson, with my instructions and 
suggestions for all enhancements and updates.

The President of the FTA - Olivier Goguel, cofounded 1WSW with me, in 
1993 for the express purpose of my coordinating the program updates with 
the FTA releases - Olivier furnished me with the Noise Tracker v1.0 src. 
codes first. I furnished the v1.0 src. codes to others second. These are 
facts that nobody can deny or prove otherwise. I have ample letters and 
documentations from the author of Noise Tracker (Olivier Goguel), to 
prove all of this. This is common knowledge that many others are also 
aware of.

If in fact the program was public domain, then nobody ripped off anybody
with any updates, if not then the same applies - as Olivier Goguel gave 
me the program and the src. codes first - with all rights to it to do 
with it as I desired - with rewrites or enhancements to Noise Tracker - 
always as freewares. All 1WSW updates, enhancements and rewrites of 
Noise Tracker always had Olivier Goguels name as the original program 
author with credits for all others that helps with any such updates, 
enhancements and/or rewrites.

Additionally, anything of yours that is located inside of the Ground 
Apple2 ftp site and 1WSW folder should certainly be downloaded and 
closely review by you. If it was uploaded to Ground by me, I can assure 
you - anything I ever uploaded into the 1WSW folder was obtained from 
other places (such as the binaries posts of apple2 usenet and was not 
modified by me in any manner - other than making it into an archive from 
such binary segments it was derived from on the downloads from the 
newsgroup comp.binaries.apple2.

There are lots of archives in the 1WSW folder that I did not upload are 
request that they be placed inside of it. If you or anybody else finds 
anything of yours inside of the 1WSW folder that you don't want to see 
there then I'd advise you to contact the administrators of Ground and 
ask that it be removed promptly!

I've discussed these items in the 1WSW folder that I did not upload or 
request that they be placed inside of it with Steve Nelson and told him 
I didn't request them to be placed in the 1WSW folder. Steve and I came 
to the decision to leave them there until somebody complained about 
there being in the folder, then removing them, if the complaint was 
justified. To make it very clear to everybody - just because something 
resides inside of the Ground apple 2 ftp sites 1WSW folder doesn't imply 
that it's from 1WSW or that I uploaded or requested that it be placed 
inside of the 1WSW folder. 

Ground is down at this time (at least it was the last time I checked it 
out). The 1WSW folder inside of the upload folder can have anything 
placed in it by anybody, without my control, assistance request or 
knowledge, by anybody that wants to upload an archive there.

I just went through this very issue with Richard Bennett concerning his 
freeware release of OZ DOS, which I obtained, uploaded it exactly as I 
found it, without any alterations to it, even adding a readme file for 
it, because none was included with the archive - clearly stating that it 
was authored by Richard Bennett! I had obtained it from others. I then 
uploaded it into the 1WSW folder several years ago and only recently did 
I realize it wasn't complete - as Richard pointed out to me via an 
email. I informed Richard that I found it from some other source as 
such, I sincerely thought it was complete exactly as he released it. I 
requested that it be removed from the 1WSW folder and it was removed.

So, again, I'll state for all to act on - if anybody has any problems 
with anything inside of the 1WSW folder on Ground, then ask the Ground 
Administrators of the ftp site to remove it and or move it some place 
else.


Enough said!

Cheers,
Tom