uh-oh - it shouldn't be on sf.net if it's shareware. that's a violation of the
terms of service.
you might want to dig further into that with the authors, because some people
think the word "shareware" means "freeware". so you might want to see if they
are actually charging a fee for the product or not. If they are, then they are
violating the terms of service and it is actually shareware. if they are not,
you should probably help them by telling them what the definition of
"shareware" is.
>________________________________
>From: Ralf A. Quint <free...@gmx.net>
>To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>Cc: "freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:18 PM
>Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers
>
>At 11:46 AM 9/13/2011, jhall wrote:
>
>>>>I emailed the contact person of VMiX yesterday, to see if he might
>>>>be interested in opening VMiX as open source software.
>>>
>>>clicking on the [download] button leads to
>>><ftp://ftp.sysdev.org/pub/VMiX-3/>ftp://ftp.sysdev.org/pub/VMiX-3/
>>>
>>>>so it's possible no one is working
>>>>on VMiX anymore. If they would be willing to open VMiX under the GNU
>>>>GPL, I'd love to see us add VMiX to a future release of FreeDOS.
>>>it's GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. how much more o you expect ?
>>
>>That's interesting! The file I read on their site said shareware, so
>>I didn't look further. Maybe I was looking at an old file. I'll look
>>at this again.
>
>Only the BABy part (Basic ABstraction Layer) tool/library is under
>LGPL, the rest is still marked as shareware...
>
>Ralf
>
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