<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'><div class="markdown-here-wrapper" data-md-url="https://mail.zoho.com/zm/#compose" style=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">—— On Tue, 07 Mar 2017 17:04:05 -0800 David Spencer <a href="http://mailto:baildon.research@googlemail.com">baildon.research@googlemail.com</a> wrote ——</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;"></p><div class="markdown-here-exclude"><p></p><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 6px; margin:0 0 0 5px"><div>Obviously everybody is indebted to you Ryan for your numerous <br></div><div>contributions, and I'm very grateful for those I use every day. <br></div><div> <br></div><div>But I'd like to say thanks in particular for showing us the perfect <br></div><div>way to do GPL SlackBuilds: <br></div><div> <br></div><div># This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify <br></div><div># it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by <br></div><div># the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or <br></div><div># (at your option) any later version, with the following exception: <br></div><div># the text of the GPL license may be omitted. <br></div><div> <br></div><div># This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but <br></div><div># without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of <br></div><div># merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Compiling, <br></div><div># interpreting, executing or merely reading the text of the program <br></div><div># may result in lapses of consciousness and/or very being, up to and <br></div><div># including the end of all existence and the Universe as we know it. <br></div><div># See the GNU General Public License for more details. <br></div><div> <br></div><div>You've certainly left your signature on the Universe :) <br></div><div> <br></div><div>Live long and prosper <br></div></blockquote><p></p></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;"></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">Thank you for the kind words David. I picked up that trick from Melikamp! The Slackware community teaches you how to learn, I’ve met incredible people through it, and being a maintainer has been very rewarding.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">I’d like to thank you for your incredible contributions, especially <code style="font-size: 0.85em; font-family: Consolas, Inconsolata, Courier, monospace;margin: 0px 0.15em; padding: 0px 0.3em; white-space: pre-wrap; border: 1px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); border-radius: 3px; display: inline;">slackrepo</code> (<a href="https://github.com/idlemoor/slackrepo">https://github.com/idlemoor/slackrepo</a>), which has considerably raised the quality of all of SBo.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em !important;">-Ryan<br>[ryanpcmcquen.org]</p>
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