On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:42:52 +0200, you wrote: Sorry for breaking in ...
Something immediately come to my mind - to destroy the FREE or OPEN SOURCE project is very easy. Somebody appear suddenly, say something to insult/mock/disturb/tease the developers, challenge their self-respection, trouble them and make them angry, and they'll leave the project automatically. Somebody behind the scene need not to spending a single penny for the lawyer. This kind of things happened quite a few times in Emulation camp. Lots of wonderful, awesome emulator projects terminated because of this. It seems finally the nightmare arrived. >Sad to see that, Tom! But you're right - there is no logic in lawyer's thinking. >However, what if we compose a special FreeDOS License, I like Lucho's suggestion. The only problem is someone have to work out the new license, it's not an easy task. >GNU Lesser General Public License, or GNU LGPL for short >License of Guile >License of the run-time units of the GNU Ada compiler >X11 license >Expat license >Standard ML of New Jersey Copyright License >Cryptix General License >Modified BSD license >License of ZLib >License of the iMatix Standard Function Library >W3C Software Notice and License >Berkeley Database License (aka the Sleepycat Software Product License) >OpenLDAP License, Version 2.7 >License of Python 1.6a2 and earlier versions >License of Python 2.0.1, 2.1.1, and newer versions >License of Perl >Clarified Artistic License >Artistic License 2.0 >Zope Public License version 2.0 >Intel Open Source License (as published by OSI) >License of Netscape Javascript >eCos license version 2.0 >Eiffel Forum License, version 2 Honestly, I'm tired of this complexity. All I can remember is the simple "public domain" in good old days. Rgds, Johnson. -------------------------------------------------------- Hong Kong - International Joke Center (after 1997-06-30) ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
