Mail Archives: opendos/1998/07/02/04:59:41
Tim Bird wrote:
>
>
> My understanding is that DRDOS itself is still "essentially"
> free for non-commercial use, but that WebSpyder is not. Not
> much has changed with regard to the freeness of DRDOS itself
> over the last year.
The final shipping of 7.02 was almost ready at Christmas, but it was
delayed by three things:
1. The last-minute discovery of a bug in the F5 code (fixed)
2. The name-change to DR-DOS
3. The arrival of a new licence agreement from the States
> The license is essentially the same as it has always been.
When we got the new license, I checked it carefully and found that the
wording of the non-commercial grant had changed to mean that you should
register it after a 'reasonable' period of time, as opposed to the
previous grant, which had no restrictions on non-commercial use.
So to my mind, it's shareware :)
> I helped craft the license, and non-commercial redistribution
> has always been allowed. It's even bolded in the license, in
> part III, bullet item 6:
>
> "REDISTRIBUTION OF THE SOFTWARE IS PERMITTED FOR NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES"
>
> The license qualifies this with some junk about not removing copyrights,
> etc., but I can't seem to convince anyone that it's OK to post
> (redistribute) DRDOS for non-commercial use anywhere.
I didn't notice that, or I didn't consider it important at the time for
some reason..
Now, http://www.altos.org.uk (guide to alternative Oses)
It describes DRDOS as "Not really free, but the free evaluation
period is over three months for non-commercial users."
BTW Tim, should 'wether' be 'whether' in the license agreement?
>
> Tim Bird
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