Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 21:35:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Mike A. Harris" Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" To: OpenDOS discussion list Subject: [opendos] License of OpenDOS Message-ID: Organization: Your mom. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk 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 My dynamic address: http://www3.sympatico.ca/mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT sympatico DOT ca mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca DOS must have's: 4DOS 5.50c ftp://ftp.std.com/vendors/jpsoft