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From:	"Matthias Paul" <Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: multitasking gives blank screen
Date:	Thu, 5 Jul 2001 04:46:00 +0200
Organization:	University of Technology, RWTH Aachen, Germany
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On 2001-07-04, Arkady V. Belousov wrote:

>> No, it is a bug of drmouse. Also CTMOUSE had it in
>> old versions.
>
> This is because drmouse is an old (1.4?) (stolen?) version
> of ctmouse. At least, when Caldera releases drmouse Daniel
> informs he is not gives rights for this (note: CTMOUSE is
> under GPL license).

Hm, I´m not going to "defend" Caldera in this point,
but to keep the facts straigt:

From what I know, this has been an unfortunate though
inexcusable mistake. Once Caldera has been made aware
of it by several people including Charles Dye, Jim Hall,
and myself, they have contacted Nagy Daniel and asked
for permission, and he agreed with it.

BTW. The CTMOUSE issue I had around this time (I still
have it archived somewhere) did not contain any kind of
hints that it would be under the GPL, and I doubt it was.
I remember that I checked this before my inquiry.
AFAIR it only contained a few rather blurred notes,
which could let grow the reader´s impression that the
driver was meant to be in the Public Domain - although
it contained a "(C)" string. AFAIR, it did not contain
the legally required "Copyright" string.

But, of course, if nothing else than common cortesy
dictates to ask *prior* to any possible reuse of
foreign code...

 Matthias

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