
Fortune: Quotable Homer
Clayton Carter
Dec 11 2001

Sections: NEWS INTRO LICENSE URLS


NEWS

Dec 11 2001
	So, technically, the package hasn't changed since April of
2000, but I'm coming to you now because of one very important update:
this is now released under a license.  I got an email in early
November (of 2001) from a guy with the Penguin Liberation Front [1]
who wanted to make a Mandrake package of these fortunes; but they
needed to have a license first, he said.  `OK', I said, and promptly
ignored it for over a month.  Well, now's that time.


INTRO

	In 1999, Fox published a one-a-day calendar of Homer Simpson
quotes.  On the back of each page was the name of the episode from the
quote came, providing us fanatics with some fun trivia.  At some
point, I decided that it'd be nice to have all of those quotes in a
file parsable by `fortune`.  So, you get what we have here.


INSTALL

	Simply place the files `homer' and `homer.dat' into same the
directory as the other fortune files.  Usually, this is (on GNU/Linux)
`/usr/share/games/fortunes'.  If, for some reason, you'd rather not
get homer quotes, simply delete the file `homer.dat'.  At any later
date, you may run `strfile homer` and the .dat file will be
recreated.  Could it be any easier?


LICENCE

	OK, I'm not *really* sure how to go about this.  The ambiguity
comes in that I didn't write any of the quotes, some funny Harvard
dropouts at Fox did.  I did, however, put forth the effort of getting
the quotes into a software package.  In light of that, I'll make this
rather complicated:

The software package, including the files:
	homer		(the quotes)
	homer.dat	(the quotes index; output of `strfile homer`)
	README		(this file)

	is hereby released to the public under the terms of the GNU
General Public Licence.  The quotes, however, (the individual contents
of the `homer' file) are copyright Fox Television.

	So, let's review:

Quotes:
Copyright 1990-1998  Fox Television

Packaging of Quotes:
Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001  Clayton Carter

License of Package:
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
USA.

	[CRC's note:  The GPL is also available on the web [2].]


URLS

[1] Penguin Liberation Front
http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/plf/

[2] GPL
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL

Page from whence this package came
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~crcarter/homer/homer.html

Official Site
http://www.thesimpsons.com

Unofficial (and way cooler) Site
http://www.snpp.com
