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Date:	Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:11:16 +0400 (MSD)
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Hi!

5-éÀÌ-2001 04:46 Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Matthias Paul) wrote to
<opendos AT delorie DOT com>:

>> 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).
MP> Hm, I‡m not going to "defend" Caldera in this point,
MP> but to keep the facts straigt:
MP> From what I know, this has been an unfortunate though
MP> inexcusable mistake. Once Caldera has been made aware
MP> of it by several people including Charles Dye, Jim Hall,
MP> and myself, they have contacted Nagy Daniel and asked
MP> for permission, and he agreed with it.

     I never seen public notes about this. :) Also note: Caldera in any case
should contact author of program before program will be embedded into their
own solutions.

MP> BTW. The CTMOUSE issue I had around this time (I still
MP> have it archived somewhere) did not contain any kind of
MP> hints that it would be under the GPL, and I doubt it was.

     Ok-ok. I check and also not found explicit link to GPL in 1.4. The more
so Caldera should contact the author to clear up rights of use.

MP> I remember that I checked this before my inquiry.
MP> AFAIR it only contained a few rather blurred notes,
MP> which could let grow the reader‡s impression that the
MP> driver was meant to be in the Public Domain - although
MP> it contained a "(C)" string. AFAIR, it did not contain
MP> the legally required "Copyright" string.
MP> But, of course, if nothing else than common cortesy
MP> dictates to ask *prior* to any possible reuse of foreign code...

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