On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Eric Auer wrote:
> 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. One measly line in Diman (a disk image reader I wrote some years ago in QuickBasic) is the entire reason I had to gpl it, when I would rather have released it BSD. (it was for parsing a FAT12 table; the code came from the FreeDOS kernel.) I'm not anti-GPL, don't get me wrong, I just don't like tethering others down with it, so when I write simple userland tools, I usually BSD or PD them. -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
