On 26 Mar 2002, at 21:34, Timothy Swenson wrote: (...) > >5/ Any person may make any change to the source code he feels like. > >Any person may give away to others the modificaton he thus made, including > >the official distribution in source code form only, provided this is made > >ENTIRELY FOR FREE - > >no charges, not even copying charges, or charges for the media on which > >this is distributed, > >may be levied. > > But, a charge can be made if the original source code is not included, > meaning just any new code that the author created.
Well of course, if you don't distribute SMSQ/E with your change (say it is a simple patch you LRESPR) how could I interfere with that? I have no rights whatsoever to your code. >Also, if I can compile > just my code as a stand alone object, is this statement saying that I can't > distribute my own stuff, even without the SMSQ/E source code. NO - same reply as above Again this > is badly worded and leaves more logic holes, esp. when trying to tell an > author what they can or can not do with their own code. > Boooh! > Well, I hate to talk about something in the works, esp. when I don't know > when I might finish it, but I'm currently working on a "Idiot's Guide" (in > the same vein as the one Norman did) for PE programming and on THINGS (so > that I better understand it all). I would like to do one for the OS in > general and have a draft that is only about 20% complete. I prefer to have > documentation that does not assume the reader knows assembly. I also like > the more complex OS documentation to use terms used by other OS books > (processes, threads, atomic, semaphores, mutex's, etc). I try and > understand both QDOS and Unix by comparing the two, picking up little > pieces of each as I go. This is great news! Wolfgang
