DOS ain't dead

License choice? (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 24.10.2010, 00:55

It sounds like it's just easier for you to personally "vet" potential projects that want to use it (commercially or otherwise). In other words, don't open source it at all, but feel free to "give" free-use licenses to worthy applicants. That's the only way you'll ever have control over who uses it and what they do with it. It won't be GPL, so you'll lose a few "friends", but at least then you won't have to worry yourself at night! If you give any of it away, even only as freeware, as we've seen, people will use it any way they see fit (even commercially). Of course, why that bothers you, I don't know. (If you just want to make sure everybody knows it's "free" so that nobody will accidentally pay money to the wrong person, you could donate it publicly to FreeDOS or EDR-DOS or whomever, probably the first place(s) somebody would look for DOS software these days. FreeDOS does heavily prefer GPL, though, which doesn't forbid commercial use in any circumstances as long as the code is shared. Oh, and feel free to set up a "Donations" button on your site, but don't get your hopes up. But hey, better than nothing, right??)

Also note that I'm a networking noob, esp. in DOS, so I'm completely inept here (more than usual, heh). So I can't use it anyways. So I guess I'm unbiased enough (sorta).

N.B. I honestly don't know what you should do, what you want, etc. I hope you work it out okay. It's a difficult dilemma. (And I don't remember ever sending postcards to any authors [ADOM?], too lazy, heh, but if you really really want one from [your own?] boring ol' U.S.A, then ....)

Complete thread:

• mTCP 2010-09-16 Version - mbbrutman, 17.09.2010, 02:16 (Announce)
  • mTCP 2010-09-16 Version - 60-Bytes-BUG fixed - DOS386, 13.10.2010, 03:43
    • mTCP 2010-09-16 Version - 60-Bytes-BUG fixed - mbbrutman, 13.10.2010, 06:16
      • mTCP 2010-10-20 Version - IP Fragments! - mbbrutman, 21.10.2010, 05:59
        • mTCP 2010-10-20 Version - IP Fragments! - ecm, 21.10.2010, 06:06
        • mTCP 2010-10-20 Version - IP Fragments! - Rugxulo, 21.10.2010, 08:21
          • mTCP 2010-10-20 Version - IP Fragments! - mbbrutman, 21.10.2010, 15:23
        • mTCP 2010-10-20 Version - IP Fragments! - ecm, 22.10.2010, 18:48
          • mTCP 2010-10-20 Version - IP Fragments! - mbbrutman, 22.10.2010, 20:40
            • mTCP 2010-10-20 Version - IP Fragments! - ecm, 22.10.2010, 21:59
              • License choice? - mbbrutman, 23.10.2010, 23:36
                • License choice? - Rugxulo, 24.10.2010, 00:55
                  • License choice? - mbbrutman, 24.10.2010, 16:19
                • License choice? | TEST | not DOG-BOX - DOS386, 24.10.2010, 04:05
                  • Problem reports - send me a TRACE! - mbbrutman, 24.10.2010, 16:15
                • License choice? - ecm, 28.10.2010, 23:02
                  • License choice? - mbbrutman, 29.10.2010, 01:33
                    • License choice? - ecm, 29.10.2010, 14:02
            • mTCP 2010-10-20 Version - IP Fragments! - Rugxulo, 22.10.2010, 22:24
              • License choice? - mbbrutman, 23.10.2010, 23:42
        • mTCP 2010-10-20 Version - IP Fragments! - Laaca, 29.10.2010, 07:51
          • mTCP 2010-10-20 Version - IP Fragments! - mbbrutman, 29.10.2010, 17:32
            • mTCP - TSR? - ecm, 29.10.2010, 23:31
              • mTCP - TSR? - mbbrutman, 29.10.2010, 23:50
                • mTCP - TSR? - ecm, 30.10.2010, 00:04