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Submission + - All of Gopherspace Available for Download

Submitted by on Thursday April 29, 2010 @02:27PM

An anonymous reader writes: Cory Doctorow tells us that in 2007, John Goerzen scraped every gopher site he could find (gopher was a menu-driven text-only precursor to the Web; I got my first online gig programming gopher sites). He saved 780,000 documents, totalling 40GB. Today, most of this is offline, so he's making the entire archive available as a .torrent file; the compressed data is only 15GB. Wanna host the entire history of a medium? Here's your chance!

Go get yourself a piece of pre-Internet history here!

Comment Perfect place for Cryptome content... (Score 1) 171

by OpenSourceForAll on Sunday April 29, 2007 @06:44PM (#18921887) Attached to: Cryptome to be Terminated by Verio/NTT

...put it on a gopher server! No one would ever find it, but it would be preserved for all eternity! (Actually, I'm somewhat serious here, despite the bangs...)

Submission + - SQL-Ledger Relicensed, Community Gagged

Submitted by

Ashley Gittins

on Saturday April 14, 2007 @10:07AM

Ashley Gittins writes: "Users of the popular accounting package SQL-Ledger are being kept in the dark about a recent license change. Two weeks ago a new version of the software was released but along with it came the silent change of license from GPLv2 to the "SQL-Ledger Open Source License" — presumably in an effort to prevent future forks like LedgerSMB. As it turns out, the author is making deliberate attempts to prevent the community from finding out about the license change. All posts to the SQL-Ledger mailing lists asking about the license change are being censored and direct questions to the author are going unanswered. This behaviour is not a first for this particular project, and is part of the reason for the original LedgerSMB fork. So, does a project maintainer have an ethical obligation to notify his or her community of a license change? What about a legal obligation?"

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