Hi Jim,
the current Diskman website links to archive.org for some of the content and "inside" the archived website you can jump to http://web.archive.org/web/20070206182142/http://www.diskman.co.uk/license.aspx Which contains the following, as of 2/2007, emphasis added by me: "- Diskman is licensed as freeware for non-commercial use. Anybody can download it and use it free of charge, for any purpose they see fit, provided that the following conditions are met: - Diskman can only be used for non-commercial purposes ('commercial' includes use *for profit making* activities, *military* purposes or incorporation within *any product or service for which a fee is levied*) without a license. - Diskman is also available on commercial terms. To license Diskman for your commercial purposes please contact the author with details of the purpose that it will be used for. Diskman may be evaluated for commercial purposes for a period of thirty days. Commercially licensed versions of Diskman will clearly indicate that they have been licensed and have a clear notice of the conditions that they have been distributed under. In most cases Diskman will be licensed for commercial use without a fee being levied but this remains at the authors absolute discretion. - Diskman may not be used during the manufacture of computers or for mission critical recovery work (see the disclaimer) without the authors permission. - Diskman may be freely used by any home user for an indefinite period of time provided that they either downloaded it directly from this website or received it in the package available for download from this website and not, under any circumstances, as part of a product or service. - Diskman may usually be used, free of charge, by any charity or non-commercial organisation (including law enforcement) subject to agreement with the author. - The program is *not to be distributed* in any form other than that available for download from this website or directly from the author. - The program may be distributed provided that no charge is made for program and that any charges for distribution are only to cover reasonable media costs (< US$10) - *Diskman may not be included on any internet download site* other than that provided by the Diskman website *without the prior permission* of the author. It is acceptable to link to the Diskman website but not to a specific download (it won't work anyway!). - Some revisions of Diskman are still beta software and must therefore be used with great care. Other versions of Diskman marked 'stable' will have been tested for an extended period of time by a large number of users. In either case the author accepts no liability for any damage that use of Diskman may cause. Please see the disclaimer for further details." However, the CURRENT website just provides version 4.2(A3) last alpha release and NO license page. It simply says: "Diskman is no longer under development. The following downloads are provided for historical reasons and are not provided with any support." As you have already mailed the author, we should just wait whether he can offer the source code AND a more free license. I THINK the tool would be a rather nice addition to our collection :-) Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
