We previously had notes in the wiki about questionable licenses in the
FDNet package, and it was marked Yellow ("Maybe") in the wiki for
FreeDOS 1.3. So I think it's a good idea to pull FDNet for now. I've
updated the wiki to reflect that.


http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3/Packages#Networking



On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 7:02 PM Jerome Shidel <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Apr 10, 2021, at 7:03 PM, Michael Brutman <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Jerome,
> >
> > In the grand scheme of things it is not a big deal and it has been wrong 
> > for years.
> >
> > Thanks for taking care of it.  If it does remain then Rugxulo should 
> > consider updating the parts of mTCP (and anything else) that was repackaged 
> > for use in FDNet.
>
> When DOS was still my primary OS, networking wasn’t really a thing. Sure, I 
> had a fax/modem and connected via dial-up to a couple BBS and eventually even 
> the Internet. But as for actual networking, I didn’t see much of that until 
> late Win3.11. That’s more or less to say... I’m no DOS networking expert.
>
> Rugxulo originally did some network card detection and network configuration 
> in his MetaDOS side project.
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> FDNET was based on his work in MetaDOS
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> But, he was not directly involved with or responsible for  FDNET. I don’t 
> expect he will be interested in improving the package.
>
> Actually, I’ve asked several times if anyone was interested in taking over 
> FDNET to make improvements and maybe increase hardware support. But, no one 
> has ever shown any interest in doing that.
>
> So, IDK if it’s even worth updating the FDNET license and resolving any other 
> issues. Or, just drop it completely.
>
> Jerome
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