Hi Ladislav, > > You _need_ to include a copy of the GNU GPL with a copy of your > > program. I don't see one here. This file is usually named COPYING.
> But it has no sense. LPTtest is supposed to be a part of FreeDOS and > FreeDOS itself has own copy of COPYING. Why should every small binary > to have own copy of this license? I myself solve this by having a copy of the GNU GPL text on my homepage. It is indeed strange to force people to download binary and source and GPL in one zip, in particular for tools where the GPL and/or sources is way larger than the tool itself. > Maybe rather to spread it as public domain? Unfortunately, you cannot - your code is still only a TRANSLATION of Linux kernel code written in C with GPL license FIRST to Pascal and THEN to Assembly language, but it still has some smell of GPL sticking to it. As you have written several functions from scratch, and as I have written some other functions from scratch, WE as the authors of THOSE functions can re-publish those functions under a Public Domain license. Then you could rewrite (stupid but true) the rest of LPTTEST from scratch based on the ieee1284 specs or another similar howto and then the whole of LPTTEST can become Public Domain. This should be feasible: If you subtract the text messages and the complex Assembly language way to do delay, xwait, command line parsing and string and number output for DOS, only something about maybe 0.5 kilobytes of the 2 kilobytes of the LPTTEST.com binary are still made based on GPL source code anyway. While I do like the GPL, in particular version 2, I also agree that it makes life unnecessarily complicated if you only write a quick tool of a kilobyte or two and do not really care if others recycle your code under whatever (maybe proprietary) license they like. So the really TINY tools from my collection are often Public Domain. Eric PS: You should also have a look at some of the shorter alternative licenses, including some copyleft ones... Check the list and...: www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/COPYRIGHT2.html#3 and #5 www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt www.gnu.org/licenses/info/Sleepycat.html <-- a copyleft one :-) www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
