<div dir="ltr"><div>Hey Gareth,</div>I'm relatively new to this mailing list (so I hope I'm not overstepping my bounds by replying – I'm still learning the etiquette), but this mailing list is for those who have newly-created licenses that they'd like to be approved by the OSI as "open source".<div><br></div><div>You're more than welcome to license and distribute your software using any licensing strategy that you'd like, no approval process or permission necessary. Let me know if you have any questions or if I've misunderstood your email, but it sounds like you're good to go with what you have.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Christian Bundy</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 4:28 PM Gareth <<a href="mailto:dolbyg1@roadrunner.com" target="_blank">dolbyg1@roadrunner.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Did I send the e-mail below to the wrong address?  It’s been over a year and I haven’t heard back from you.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Gareth Dolby</span><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">626-335-8455<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.BinaryFilters.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.BinaryFilters.org</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Gareth [mailto:<a href="mailto:dolbyg1@roadrunner.com" target="_blank">dolbyg1@roadrunner.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 17, 2014 9:08 AM<br><b>To:</b> '<a href="mailto:license-review-subscribe@opensource.org" target="_blank">license-review-subscribe@opensource.org</a>'<br><b>Subject:</b> Approval for Binary Filters with SR.EXE<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><h3 style="margin-top:0in;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-weight:normal">For Approval<u></u><u></u></span></h3><h4 style="margin-top:0in;line-height:15.5pt;background:white;text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-weight:normal">By: Gareth B. Dolby</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-weight:normal"><u></u><u></u></span></h4><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;background:white">Approval of completely new licenses, (or licenses previously used by only a single entity(.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;background:white">The packages at </span><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal"><a href="http://www.binaryfilters.org/" target="_blank">http://www.binaryfilters.org/</a> includes:</span></em><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal"><u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">SR.EXE <u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">SR!.EXE<u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">UNIQUE.EXE<u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">WORDS.EXE<u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">SINGLE.EXE<u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">SINGLES.EXE<u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">PREFIX.EXE<u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">SUFFIX.EXE<u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">BEFORE.EXE<u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">AFTER.EXE<u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">UPPER.EXE<u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">LOWER.EXE and<u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">ECHO2CON.EXE <u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">It also includes help information in PDF and installed as a CHM file.<u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.8pt;margin-left:.25in;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><u></u> <u></u></p><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:1.8pt;margin-bottom:1.8pt;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><em><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">Distinguish by Name</span></b></em><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">:</span></em><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949"> </span><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal"><u></u> <u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">SR.EXE</span></b></em><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal"> and <b>SR!.EXE</b> are the same, but with an alias to avoid confusion with other files available by the same name of SR.EXE.  These other SR.EXEs available on the Internet are </span></em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">(1) WinFixer, an Adware tool considered malicious, (2) SlickRun (<a href="http://slickrun.en.softonic.com/" target="_blank">http://slickrun.en.softonic.com/</a> ), Search-and-Replace (3) by Funduc ( </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.funduc.com/search_replace.htm" target="_blank">http://www.funduc.com/search_replace.htm</a> <span style="color:#494949">) and Search-and-Replace (4) by InfoRapid ( </span><a href="http://www.inforapid.de/html/suchenersetzen.htm" target="_blank">http://www.inforapid.de/html/suchenersetzen.htm</a> <span style="color:#494949">).  These two Search-and-Replace programs operate differently from mine.<em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-style:normal"><u></u><u></u></span></em></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal"><u></u> <u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">There is another file available on the Internet named <b>UNIQUE.EXE</b>.  It is a NFS game (<a href="http://ulozto.net/xrpGj5M/nfs-most-wanted-unique-exe-torrent" target="_blank">http://ulozto.net/xrpGj5M/nfs-most-wanted-unique-exe-torrent</a> ), not a filter<u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal"><u></u> <u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">There is another file available on the Internet named <b>WORDS.EXE</b> (<a href="http://archives.nd.edu/whitaker/wordswin.htm" target="_blank">http://archives.nd.edu/whitaker/wordswin.htm</a> ), which gives the meaning of Latin words, instead of separating words.<u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal"><u></u> <u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">There is another file available on the Internet named <b>SINGLES.EXE</b> (<a href="http://www.allthingsnow.com/week/coding/shared/43529240/Download-Simon-Tatham-s-Portable-Puzzle-Collection" target="_blank">http://www.allthingsnow.com/week/coding/shared/43529240/Download-Simon-Tatham-s-Portable-Puzzle-Collection</a> ), which is Simon Tatham's portable puzzle collection, instead of a space reducer.<u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal"><u></u> <u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">There is another file available on the Internet named <b>PREFIX.EXE</b>, which is a precarious file created to slash security.<u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal"><u></u> <u></u></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">All my other file names are unique on the Internet.  These are </span></em><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">SUFFIX, BEFORE, AFTER, UPPER, SINGLE</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">, <b>LOWER, ECHO2CON and SR!</b></span><b><u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:1.8pt;margin-bottom:1.8pt;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><em><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">Distinguish by Function</span></b></em><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">:</span></em><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949"> </span><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.8pt;margin-left:.25in;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">U-Convert ( <span style="color:#494949"><a href="http://www.u-convert.com/" target="_blank">http://www.u-convert.com/</a></span> ) is similar to many filters above, but is not programmable, because it uses a GUI.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.8pt;margin-left:.25in;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">Textfixers ( <a href="http://www.textfixer.com/tools/" target="_blank">http://www.textfixer.com/tools/</a> )</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> are similar to many of these filters, but are not programmable, because they are only on-line.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.8pt;margin-left:.25in;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">TextMechanic ( <a href="http://textmechanic.com/" target="_blank">http://textmechanic.com/</a> <span style="color:#494949">)</span> has similar filters to many of these, but are not programmable, because they are only on-line.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.8pt;margin-left:.25in;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">FAR (<a href="http://findandreplace.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://findandreplace.sourceforge.net/</a> ) </span>is similar to <b>SR</b>, but it requires Java and uses a GUI for Find-And-Replace operations across multiple files in entire directory trees.  <b>SR </b>only requires Windows.<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.8pt;margin-left:.25in;line-height:15.5pt;background:white">The Linux and Unix TR command is similar to <b>SR</b>, but can only do one-for-one character TRanslation and does not run in Windows.  <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.8pt;margin-left:.25in;line-height:15.5pt;background:white">The Linux and Unix uniq command is very similar to <b>UNIQUE</b>, but has different options with restrictions and does not run in Windows.  <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">There are many, old filters that can add a <b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">PREFIX</span></b> or <b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">SUFFIX</span></b> to every line, but all of them require the command line parameters to begin with code that prepares it to do only that.  <b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">PREFIX</span></b> and <b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">SUFFIX </span></b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">only</span></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949"> do that, so </span>those command line parameters are eliminated<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">.  <b>SR</b> can add a PREFIX</span> <u>and</u> <span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">SUFFIX<b> </b>in one command, but <u>does</u> require the command line parameters to begin with code that prepares it to do that. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:1.8pt;margin-bottom:1.8pt;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><em><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">Rationale</span></b></em><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">: </span></em><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949;font-style:normal">This software has never been distributed on the Internet on any website other than my new <a href="http://www.binaryfilters.org/" target="_blank">http://www.binaryfilters.org/</a>.  It has also never been mailed to anyone.</span></em><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal"><u></u><u></u></span></em></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.8pt;margin-left:.25in;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><u></u> <u></u></p><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#494949;margin-top:1.8pt;margin-bottom:1.8pt;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><em><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Legal review</span></b></em><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">:</span></em><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> There have been no legal reviews of this license or software. <u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.8pt;margin-left:6.0pt;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#494949"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">There are no earlier public discussions about licensing Binary Filters. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.8pt;margin-left:6.0pt;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#0070c0"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        </span></span></span><u></u><em><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">Proliferation category</span></b></em><em><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">:</span></em><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">A single license<span> </span>is appropriate.  </span>This is <span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">a plaintext copy of the license that I am requesting:<span style="color:#0070c0"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:4.5pt;line-height:18.95pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#494949">The MIT License (MIT)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.2in;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">The MIT License (MIT)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.2in;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.2in;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy<br>of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal<br>in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights<br>to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell<br>copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is<br>furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.2in;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in<br>all copies or substantial portions of the Software.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1in;line-height:15.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#494949">THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR<br>IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,<br>FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE<br>AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER<br>LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,<br>OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN<br>THE SOFTWARE.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gareth Dolby</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">626-335-8455<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">P.S.        Would I be better off just renaming SR to SR!?<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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