Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-14 Thread Jim Hall
On 7/14/07, chris evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >But it has no sense. LPTtest is supposed to be a part of FreeDOS and FreeDOS > >itself has own copy of COPYING. Why should every small binary to have own > >copy of this license? > > >Maybe rather to spread it as public domain? > > I thought tha

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-14 Thread chris evans
>But it has no sense. LPTtest is supposed to be a part of FreeDOS and FreeDOS >itself has own copy of COPYING. Why should every small binary to have own >copy of this license? >Maybe rather to spread it as public domain? I thought that all was necessary in a program like this is a small comment t

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, I did some experiments with ieee1284 plug and play handshaking, based on the docs on fapo.com ... Yes I know that Public Domain means "everybody can do everything with it, including removing any mention of me as the author". Anyway. Here is what I found: Default data, control, status in

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-14 Thread CK Raju
Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Including a copy of the license with the work is vital so that everyone who gets a copy of the program can know what his rights are. Here's what Eben Moglen has got to say : "The copyright status accorded to each author of a computer program, the exclusive right

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-14 Thread Jim Hall
I responded to Ladislav in private on this matter, but since Eric raises a few points, I'll respond to those here. License discussion is getting off-topic from the original subject; if we need to continue this discussion, let's switch to a new subject line. On 7/13/07, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED