Message-ID: <00a501c05c5a$f04f1320$11fea8c0@dell>
From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
References: <01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A4021E51 AT emwatent02 DOT meters DOT com DOT au> <005f01c05b88$f58c8200$fc881004 AT dbcooper>
Subject: Re: Greed (was DPMS info)
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:25:19 -0000
Organization: Jemmett Glover Software Development
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Hi Patrick,

You're pretty much right about the DPMS license - unless Lineo bought the
entire thing outright, including all licensing rights (which they may have
done, actually), they can't change the license.  Even if they could, one can
simply use an older (i.e. Novell branded) copy of the DPMS server.

> It is just like GNU or GPL, once something has been licesed through it no
> one can change it.
Actually, the GNU GPL states that if you make sufficient alterations to a
program (such that the original code is still there but there's enough
around it that it can be properly called a new derivative), the authors can
change the licensing agreement.

BTW, the PNW Tutor disk can be found on Lineo's FTP.

Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)