Since I developed it at work for work I'll have to ask my employer about that. Of course perhaps I should have asked before posting it publicly, but that's water under the bridge now!
Sidetracking, has anyone used GitHub for z/OS production source repository. Meaning interacting with it directly from the mainframe? All of our distributed development groups use it, and it might be nice if we could use it as well. Frank ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of John McKown <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 8, 2016 7:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Enterprise COBOL API for dynamic capacity tables On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Frank Swarbrick <[email protected] > wrote: > It's always something, ain't it! > > Check it out now. > > Frank > That looked very interesting. I divided up the integrated copybooks into separate files. I've also placed them in a local git repository (git is a source code management tool used by a number of FOSS projects, especially the Linux kernel) . One thing, which is quite important to me, is that there is no LICENSE information, nor any copyright asserted in the source code. This would mean that the code _IS_ copyright under the normal Berne Convention ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention). Basically, this means [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Berne_Convention_signatories.svg/335px-Berne_Convention_signatories.svg.png]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention> Berne Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention> en.wikipedia.org Content. The Berne Convention requires its signatories to treat the copyright of works of authors from other signatory countries (known as members of the Berne Union ... "fair use" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use). This is actually quite restrictive since, at least theoretically, one could not integrate the code into a larger work. If the larger work is not "distributed" (which has even more legal meanings), then all is well. But if, for instance. I were to use it in a utility program, I could not legally put such a program into the CBTtape.org site because that could possibly result in legal action. Since the copyright is 50 years from time of death, your heirs could sue for copyright infringement. Yes, this is very theoretical, but it is one of my "hot buttons" as a FOSS advocate. Would you mind putting up a LICENSE document? If you want to say "use as you will", then you might want to use the "BSD 2 clause" license (basically - somebody couldn't claim it as their own & must include your copyright of the code in their distribution, if distributed). There are a lot of FOSS licenses you could choose from (I recommend against GPL or AGPL since this is a very small amount of code). The most free license it to release it into the PUBLIC DOMAIN. I.e. "Here it is. Use it as you will. But don't bother me about it." If you put in under a FOSS license, I would love to place it on GitHub. I have a few things of mine there, https://github.com/JohnArchieMcKown . -- Klein bottle for rent -- inquire within. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
