Date:	Mon, 27 Jan 1997 21:35:09 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT sympatico DOT ca>
Reply-To:	"Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT sympatico DOT ca>
To:	OpenDOS discussion list <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject:	[opendos] License of OpenDOS
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I've just read the license of OpenDOS and I don't find it as OPEN as
I've read it will be.  I'm assuming that the license is so strict
because they haven't OFFICIALLY released it yet.

I *DO* however like the fact that they WONT allow mirroring.  I've
thought about this quite a bit, and I think that once the sources are
released that there will be 50000 different versions of OpenDOS
circulating the net if they don't make it otherwise illegal.

Mirroring could however be done easily by mirror agreements.  In other
words, *ONLY* sites that are under special agreement with Caldera
would be allowed to distribute the unmodified Caldera archives.

BTW, if the sources can't be modified, what good are they?
Also, the part about reverse engineering OpenDOS really made me laugh.
Who in their right mind would reverse engineer something that they
have the source code for?  Thats a real laugh!

Could someone please tell me that this is just a temporary license for
the "test" version that can now be downloaded?



Mike A. Harris  -  Computer Consultant   http://www3.sympatico.ca/mharris
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DOS must have's: 4DOS 5.50c  ftp://ftp.std.com/vendors/jpsoft

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