Actually, it isn't necessarily IBM's call for a lot of the packages listed
there. Many of these packages were written by customers using zVM, and they
have the right to decide how to distribute their intellectual property.
Generally, the submitter of the package is listed along with each package,
and you'd be free to write to them and request the source; demanding it
probably won't get you very far...
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On 3/13/07 10:22 AM, "Stephen Frazier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like IBM to include the source of all the programs on the download
> page. That way if the
> author leaves (or is busy) someone else who uses the program can still fix
> problems.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I have been able to graft a TAPE=TAPn function into PIPEDDR. It probably
>> isn't the way the original author would have liked it, but it works for now.
>>
>> I have had some luck with contacting other contributors to the Downloads
>> page and would like to continue that. My client's dependency on programs
>> like this really has nothing to do with the legal aspects of any of this.
>> The only considerations are that it doesn't cost them anything and they can
>> blame me when it doesn't work after I am dead and gone. Having someone to
>> blame is a pretty good midigation for risk.
>>
>> But my basic process is to try to get the current tools to work before
>> throwing them away for something completely different. So I ask about
>> CKDSVRST before switching completely to PIPEDDR.
>>
>> /Tom Kern
