Bart, BO> Who can sue Tom for changing the license? The copyright holders. There aren't any. contributing to a project doesn't mean you get a copyright.
BO> Will they BO> sue Tom? They'll have a tough time in court (because the contributions BO> are minor and close to fair use) only 'close' to fair use ? BO> Why should I sue Tom? He seems to be a nice guy... :)) BO> I just chose to avoid the grey area by not using it. Distribute BO> uncompressed executables, let the end user decide which exepacker is BO> best for him. IMO that's a very bad decision - close to 'distribute source only' IMO providing precompiled binaries (and that includes compression) in the kernel, that becomes even much worse, as you can't just exepack the kernel. to do that, you would have to download watcom, setup,... just to exepack the kernel; hardly something for joe average. BO> It's what Steffen does with freecom and I do with BO> freecoma and sys in the kernel zip. Or use UPX (UPX-UCL if you're really BO> paranoid -- I'm getting really tired of the NRV ranting, remember that BO> NDAs are really nothing special, it just matters *what* they state, I BO> even had to sign one for a pretty basic summer job 10 years ago, so I'll BO> probably just use UPX-UCL for the next kernel version to avoid all BO> issues). Well - when I made UPX compressed kernel possible, I certainly did not intend that it be used with a second grade exepacker. BO> Distribute BO> uncompressed executables, let the end user decide which exepacker is BO> best for him. Even if that would be a sensible option ( which I doubt), this ignores the case where people (like me) distribute a prepackaged bootable floppy (rom image,CD,...), where exepacking it on enduser site is simply not possible. and that's the point where it hurts: that I can't exepack KERNEL.SYS and FREECOM.COM with aPack to save some Kbyte (200 byte in mkeyb aren't important) tom ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel