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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 11:20:22 -0500
To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT sympatico DOT ca>
From: Takashi Toyooka <ttoyooka AT verisim DOT com>
Subject: Re: [opendos] License of OpenDOS
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Mike has raised concerns that I had myself, and I just want to add
my voice to his.

This is the part of the license agreement I have the most problem
with:

    Except where expressly provided in this license, Licensee may
    not use, copy, disseminate, modify, reverse engineer, distribute,
    sub-license, sell, rent, lend, give, or lease or in any way
    transfer using any means or medium, including telecommunications,
    the software.

Now, as Mike has said, I hope this refers only to this pre-release
version.  I see no provision in this license to allow us to do any
development on the source code.

At 21:35 1997/01/27 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>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.
>
I agree.  This makes sense.

>BTW, if the sources can't be modified, what good are they?
>Could someone please tell me that this is just a temporary license for
>the "test" version that can now be downloaded?
>
Someone please tell *us* that this is the case.

Takashi