Hi Jim,
interesting that the DISKMAN website just WORKED. The idea to view it using archive.org came from Robert, maybe it did not work from his area? Odd. > I downloaded 4.2.a3 from the author's website > http://www.diskman.co.uk/ and while there's no Readme > file, running the program prints this notice: > >> Licensed to : ALPHA RELEASE. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE... The list of versions (on the website, viewed through archive.org, as written) also suggests that, but how about the most recent stable release 4.x instead then? If the website still is active, the software may still be freeware for non-commercial, non-violent use BUT shareware for the rest, which might be an issue for fitting it into our licensing policies? > That's a live website, so you don't need to point to the Archive.org > copy of the website. > > There's a "Contact me" form at the bottom of his website, and I have > just submitted a request there to ask if he would be willing to > release Diskman under an open source software license. I pointed James > to the OpenSource Initiative's website and their list of open source > licenses. Thanks! Regards, Eric PS: I had encountered it when searching ibiblio for file managers, partition managers and system info tools. Laaca just told me that *DOS Navigator* is quite okay as file manager AND has a reasonable system info feature :-) That and DOSZIP commander are the two file managers which we have in our 1.2 ibiblio collection at the moment. PPS: Making dozens of version-subdirectories cannot have been more work than normalizing (within-package only!) versioned zip names ;-) _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
