FloodBot status

[ljlbox at tiscali.it]

The FloodBots have been disabled in #ubuntu. 

They have more than
once been said to be (no longer) very useful, and often said to be a
kludge. I don't think it makes sense to have them anymore, especially
after I was made aware the IRCC has considered removing them as an
experiment, but never really did, during times when "certain fun
happens". 

The FloodBot code had been on Launchpad at
https://launchpad.net/floodbot [1] since early 2012, with the
understanding, in concert with the IRCC, that after people would step up
to clean up and improve the code, eventually it would be made open
source. Nobody stepped up, and eventually, the Launchpad project was
locked by Canonical because "private" project became only acceptable
under payment, according to the email I received. 

I would like to
point out that the FloodBot code is under my exclusive copyright, it has
never been licensed for redistribution, and any license text it may even
have contained was provisional and only meant for internal use.


Further use or distribution of the FloodBot code is NOT authorized by
the copyright holder; any exception would have to be agreed upon in
private, and I would confirm it on this mailing list. 

by LjL


ljlbox at tiscali.it 

ljl at ubuntu.com  

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Links:
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[1]
https://launchpad.net/floodbot
[2]
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