On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:03:03AM +0100, Roy Wood wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard > Zidlicky<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > <SNIP> > >Absolutely not. If you are building hardware you can't simply provide > >the user with an official SMSQ version in EPROM and a patch on a floppy > >disk and expect him to apply the patch to the EPROM. > No need. All versions of SMSQ/E for the Qxx (which is what we are > talking about here - possibly the GoldFire later but that will have > flash ROM) are LRESPR'able over the source code on the ROM. That is what > I do because I have an early version of the ROM.
it will break when harddisks are accessed in LBA instead of CHS mode. Besides, what is the point to require the user to go through additional hoops like this? The speed argument mentioned later in this discussion is tripple nonsense and the authors of it should know better. Surely the version control which was intended as the main benefit of this license doesn't benefit from an approach like this where user is supposed to patch his own software. In any case this discussion is pretty academic, I do not intend to do extra work like providing patches just to please a broken license. BTW how is it possible that newest QPC has some nonstandard SMSQ extensions? Have these already been included in the official SMSQ version? Richard
