We previously had notes in the wiki about questionable licenses in the
FDNet package, and it was marked Yellow ("Maybe") in the wiki for
FreeDOS 1.3. So I think it's a good idea to pull FDNet for now. I've
updated the wiki to reflect that.http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3/Packages#Networking On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 7:02 PM Jerome Shidel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Apr 10, 2021, at 7:03 PM, Michael Brutman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Jerome, > > > > In the grand scheme of things it is not a big deal and it has been wrong > > for years. > > > > Thanks for taking care of it. If it does remain then Rugxulo should > > consider updating the parts of mTCP (and anything else) that was repackaged > > for use in FDNet. > > When DOS was still my primary OS, networking wasn’t really a thing. Sure, I > had a fax/modem and connected via dial-up to a couple BBS and eventually even > the Internet. But as for actual networking, I didn’t see much of that until > late Win3.11. That’s more or less to say... I’m no DOS networking expert. > > Rugxulo originally did some network card detection and network configuration > in his MetaDOS side project. > > FDNET was based on his work in MetaDOS > > But, he was not directly involved with or responsible for FDNET. I don’t > expect he will be interested in improving the package. > > Actually, I’ve asked several times if anyone was interested in taking over > FDNET to make improvements and maybe increase hardware support. But, no one > has ever shown any interest in doing that. > > So, IDK if it’s even worth updating the FDNET license and resolving any other > issues. Or, just drop it completely. > > Jerome > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
