Wikipedia:History of computing/Permission

The following is the permission to use the material in the History of computing hardware pages. I have obscured the email addresses in the message below in an obvious way. AxelBoldt

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Original Message > From Axel Boldt  > Date: Monday, 20 Aug 2001, 21:25 > > I noticed that you have the definite computing history timeline on > your web site. Maybe you have heard about the GNU style > encyclopedia at http://wikipedia.com ; we currently have only a weak > entry about computing history (in fact some of it seems to be > illegally copied from your site). Would you consider donating your > timeline to the Wikipedia? You can enter and edit the article about > computing history yourself, just go to > http://wikipedia.com/wiki/History_of_computers and click on "edit this > page right now".

Ok. First I'll give you permission to use whatever you want from my computing history site in the encyclopedia. I'd appreciate it if the link http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~swhite/history.html is retained for people to get the most up-to-date version of my information, however since the GPL doesn't allow for such provsios this will remain an informal "Gentleman's agreement" and is not legally required for the inclusion of material from my site in your encylopedia or derived works.

On the second front I'm rather busy moving house at the end of the week and I've been planning a bit of an update to my computing history pages for a while - so I'm not sure when Ill have time to look closely at your history of computing entry and possibly update it. However I'll leave this email in my pending folder in the hope that I'll have time to do so in the not-too-distant future.

Good luck with the project,

-- Stephen White                   Oxford University Computing Society System Administrator                 http://ox.compsoc.net/~swhite/ PGP Key ID: 0xC79E5B6A                      