From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Feb 5 17:23:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA02412 for emulation-outgoing; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 17:23:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA02404 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 17:22:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id LAA28747; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 11:52:46 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702060122.LAA28747@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Curious... In-Reply-To: from Christian at "Feb 5, 97 01:19:57 pm" To: PLAZAS_CHRISTIAN@COLSTATE.EDU (Christian) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 11:52:45 +1030 (CST) Cc: emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Christian stands accused of saying: > I was curious to know how you (The people working on dos > emulation) think Caldera's decision to distribute its Open DOS > product's source over the internet will affect freeBSD's dos > emulation? Will freebsd be able to use parts of open dos in its do In the tradition of commercial companies using the term "Open" to describe their products (read: lying through scabrous orifices), the license on "OpenDOS" is insufficiently "open" (at my reading) for us to want to touch it with a 40' pole. Some excerpts from their "open" license : CALDERA OPENDOS END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT REDISTRIBUTION NOT PERMITTED Caldera grants you a non-exclusive license to use the Software free of charge if (a) you are a student, faculty member or staff member of an educational institution (K-12, junior college, college or library), a staff member of a religious organization, or an employee of an organization which meets Caldera's criteria for a charitable non-profit organization; or (b) your use of the Software is for the purpose of evaluating whether to purchase an ongoing license to the Software. The evaluation period for use by or on behalf of a commercial entity is limited to 90 days; evaluation use by others is not subject to this 90 day limit. Government agencies (other than public libraries) are not considered educational, religious, or charitable non-profit organizations for purposes of this Agreement. ... You may not: o permit other individuals to use the Software except under the terms listed above; o modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble (except to the extent applicable laws specifically prohibit such restriction), or create derivative works based on the Software; o copy the Software other than as specified above; o copy or reproduce the Software to any other computer for further reproduction or redistribution, Basically, calling it "open" is a joke. Also, somewhere along the line there was supposed to be _source_ available. Interesting how that hasn't appeared, hmm? -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[