Re: [Freedos-user] can't see DVD reader - try AHCICD by R Loew - Including his software in FreeDOS
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 2:02 PM tauro via Freedos-user wrote: > Quoting the website: > > > Rudolph Loew (Rudy) passed away on September 11th, 2019. > > This site is maintained by his family to archive his work and make it > > available to anyone who is interested in pursuing further endeavors. > > Please do not try to make any purchases, all of Rudy's projects will > > be made available (including source code) as time permits. > > In order to freely distribute it and include it in FreeDOS repositories, > wouldn't it be a good idea to contact his estate to dissipate all doubts > about the current license? (maybe advice them to use a GNU GPL license too). > > Including his software in FreeDOS would keep his legacy alive for many > years and based on forum posts by his family members and the current > message header on his memorial website, it seems they would be happy > with it. > I tried to reach his family, by email (several times) and by letter, but got no response. I encouraged them to use a recognized open source license such as the MIT license or the GNU General Public License, including instructions for how to apply the license to the code. I also offered to help more directly, and to get back to me if they wanted help. But I never heard back from them. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] can't see DVD reader - try AHCICD by R Loew - Including his software in FreeDOS
On 20/9/22 04:35, Eric Auer wrote: You could use AHCICD, which got open sourced after the author Rudolph Loew passed away, but unfortunately, he has not been able to update all documentation after his death, so the way in which AHCICD and his other software became open source was not accepted by this distro and you have to download things separately by hand. However, the license.txt and readme etc. still are originals, so they still say the software is copyrighted. Only the main start page tells otherwise: Quoting the website: Rudolph Loew (Rudy) passed away on September 11th, 2019. This site is maintained by his family to archive his work and make it available to anyone who is interested in pursuing further endeavors. Please do not try to make any purchases, all of Rudy's projects will be made available (including source code) as time permits. In order to freely distribute it and include it in FreeDOS repositories, wouldn't it be a good idea to contact his estate to dissipate all doubts about the current license? (maybe advice them to use a GNU GPL license too). Including his software in FreeDOS would keep his legacy alive for many years and based on forum posts by his family members and the current message header on his memorial website, it seems they would be happy with it. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] can't see DVD reader - try AHCICD by R Loew
On 9/20/22 02:35, Eric Auer wrote: >>> There's a script that gets called from FDAUTO that tries several drivers >>> -- why wouldn't that work? And why did it work during install? > > Because only the open source ones actually got installed automatically? That seems backwards to me. The installer is the binary FreeDOS is distributing; how does it help with licensing issues to distribute questionable drivers but not install them? > El Torito often only works for the CD/DVD from which one has booted. Indeed, it gives me "No booted CD-ROM found." -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe." ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] can't see DVD reader - try AHCICD by R Loew
Hi! There's a script that gets called from FDAUTO that tries several drivers -- why wouldn't that work? And why did it work during install? Because only the open source ones actually got installed automatically? There CD also has an ELTORITO.SYS driver it will try to use. El Torito often only works for the CD/DVD from which one has booted. If UDVD2 does not detect the drive, the controller might be AHCI. You could use AHCICD, which got open sourced after the author Rudolph Loew passed away, but unfortunately, he has not been able to update all documentation after his death, so the way in which AHCICD and his other software became open source was not accepted by this distro and you have to download things separately by hand. There is a mirror on archive.org here https://archive.org/download/rloewelectronics.com The HTTPS certificate of the original site has expired, but I think it is an acceptable risk to visit the site nevertheless: https://rloewelectronics.com/distribute/AHCICD/1.1/ As you can see, you can find the binary, documentation and sources there :-) However, the license.txt and readme etc. still are originals, so they still say the software is copyrighted. Only the main start page tells otherwise: https://rloewelectronics.com/ WELCOME To the memorial homepage of R. Loew Electronics Consulting Rudolph Loew (Rudy) passed away on September 11th, 2019. This site is maintained by his family to archive his work and make it available to anyone who is interested in pursuing further endeavors. You can view the original un-modified site here. Please do not try to make any purchases, all of Rudy's projects will be made available (including source code) as time permits. Apart from AHCICD, Rudolph has written CDTOOLS, a DLLHOOK redirector, ENCRYPT for encrypted disks, FILE64 to support large files on Win98, KICKWORK, RAMDISK, REPACKER, RFDISK (a partitioning tool), RFORMAT, PATCHATA / PATCH137 to get Win98/95/ME to support disks > 137 GB, PATCHMEM to let Win9x work on PC with > 0.5 GB RAM, SATA, SHELL32 to add SHGetFolder functions, TBPLUS, TRIM and WDMEX. TBPLUS is a tool to get Win98 and MSDOS7 to support > 512 Byte per Sector and possibly also GPT partitioned drives. So most of his tools are Windows related, but some are for DOS. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
