From: "Matthias Paul" <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Organization:  Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:          Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:57:54 +0100
Subject:       RE: DPMS license
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 Joe Da Silva wrote:

> 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" ...

Even better. I was living with the impression that shipping the 
DPMS.EXE file would not be royalty-free, but I might be wrong.

However, it's not Novell who owns DR-DOS (and thereby DPMS)
now, so the licensing might have changed in the meantime...
I don't know. Someone will have to ask Lineo, I guess...

 Matthias
 
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