On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, tom ehlert wrote: > JH> What about Pat Villani, who wrote prf.c and portab.h? > this prf.c was written by the author of mkeyb, NOT pat villani.
yes, prf.c was completely recoded in the early days I started maintaining the kernel. It's had some more updates from me in the kernel source (using stdarg.h etc) but these are not in mkeyb anyway. Who can sue Tom for changing the license? The copyright holders. Will they sue Tom? They'll have a tough time in court (because the contributions are minor and close to fair use) and need to spend lots of money. Why should I sue Tom? He seems to be a nice guy... I just chose to avoid the grey area by not using it. Distribute uncompressed executables, let the end user decide which exepacker is best for him. It's what Steffen does with freecom and I do with freecoma and sys in the kernel zip. Or use UPX (UPX-UCL if you're really paranoid -- I'm getting really tired of the NRV ranting, remember that NDAs are really nothing special, it just matters *what* they state, I even had to sign one for a pretty basic summer job 10 years ago, so I'll probably just use UPX-UCL for the next kernel version to avoid all issues). Bart ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
