Hi!
> FX> For private non-commercial use it is free. They will not change it.
>
>They _HAVE_ already changed it ...
>
>PART I -- TERMS APPLICABLE WHEN LICENSE FEES NOT (YET) PAID TO CALDERA
>(LIMITED LICENSE FOR EVALUATION USE) ONLY.
>[...]
>
>You can evaluate it ... but it's NOT free any more ...
>but shareware
Yes, but you can use it for private use (free).
>
>Hence also the renaming from opendos back to drdos ...
>since drdos is everything BUT open !!!
Yes.
>
>part 2 of the license applies if you already payed for shareware drdos.
>and part 3 is IMHO for those people that bought the sourcecode.
>
> FX> I think they would make it GPL, if there would be no competitor.
>?? they go exactly the other way round !!
>Once it was free for noncommercial use ... now it's shareware ...
>it doesn't look like their going to GPL it :((
The problem is:
1) There are many DOS competitors, which will provit if it would be GPL.
2) There are some licence which would make it difficult
3) Dr-DOS brings Lineo much money (they have no work with it, but get much
money).
Bye, Florian Xaver
www.drdos.org (updated)
