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From:	"Da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT DaSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To:	"'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	RE: DPMS license (was CTMOUSE [Was: Re: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...]
	)
Date:	Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:50:13 +1100
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Regarding licensing requirements to distribute DPMS.EXE,  _why_
should there be such a requirement from Lineo??? ... Novell seems
to indicate that it can be freely distributed - to quote from

	http://developer.novell.com/support/bullets/jun93.htm,
	"Developers may distribute the server component royalty-free
	with their DPMS client programs" ...

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Matthias Paul [SMTP:PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de]
> Sent:	Tuesday, 28 November 2000 3:07
> To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject:	CTMOUSE [Was: Re: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...]
> 
> On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 03:35:58 Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
> 
> [CTMOUSE]
> > PM> I'll give that a try. Have you used it loaded prior to running TASK
> MANAGER
> > PM> and using a communications program such as Terminate? How does it
> work with
> > 
> > I don't use neither TASK MANAGER nor TERMINATE. I use Windows 3.x and
> > TERM90 from Norton Commander and have no troubles.
> 
> I haven t had a look at CTMOUSE sources yet, but I will for sure when 
> I find the time (currently I m using the LOGITECH 8.something LMOUSE 
> driver because it supports CLOAKING to reduce the real mode memory
> footprint of the driver downto 1 Kb). 
> 
> I have a suggestion for CTMOUSE to further reduce the real-mode
> memory footprint. If data is not embedded into the code it should
> be possible to adapt it to support DR-DOS (and PC DOS) DPMS (DOS
> Protected Mode Services) leaving only a stub in the 1st meg.
> The DPMS SDK should still be available from Lineo for money, 
> and shipping the DPMS.EXE driver with CTMOUSE would need licensing 
> and also not harmonize well with the GPL, of course. 
> 
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