GoldED

This article is about the FidoNet editor. For other uses, see Cubic IDE.
GoldED
Developer(s)

Goldware International

(Odinn Sørensen and Dirk A. Mueller)
Stable release 3.0.1
Preview release 4.x (does not build)
Type FidoNet message editor
License versions 3.0 and 4.x are under GNU GPL, partially under GNU LGPL; the license of CXL is unknown
Website golded-plus.sourceforge.net

GoldED was a popular message editor for FidoNet-compatible computer networks.

In 1998, Odinn Sørensen released the source code of GoldED and Goldware Utilities 3.x under GNU General Public License version 2, and the Goldware Library under GNU Library General Public License version 2. A permission has also been given to link that all with software conforming with the Open Source Definition.

The code of one of the libraries used by GoldED and GoldED+, CXL, has been licensed by Sørensen from its author, Mike Smedley. Since then the copyright has been taken over by “Innovative Data Concepts”, which, as Sørensen suspected in 1998, has disappeared.[1] This was one of the reasons for removing the goldedplus package from Debian repositories in 2006.[2]

By 1999, all the developers of GoldED left FidoNet.

GoldED+

GoldED+

GoldED+ in area list mode
Developer(s) GoldED+ Team
Stable release 1.1.4.7
Preview release 1.1.5
Written in C++
Operating system DOS DPMI32, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2, Solaris (x86 systems only), Microsoft Windows
License GNU GPL, partially under GNU LGPL; the license of CXL is unknown
Website http://golded-plus.sourceforge.net

The development still continued in a stylecode-related fork maintained by Alexander S. Aganichev (ASA) called “GoldED-asa”. When the file names of “GoldED-asa” didn’t fit in the MS-DOS length limit anymore, the fork has been renamed to “GoldED+”.[3]

By 2007 GoldED+ was the most popular cross-platform message editor in Russian-speaking FidoNet.

See also

Media related to GoldED at Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. ↑ license.txt from gps70503.tb2
  2. ↑ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=334743
  3. ↑ http://golded-plus.sourceforge.net/
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