On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 3:26 PM Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 10:59 AM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > > > Hi! Recently I have noticed that our ibiblio contains "DM21" > I'm not sure why that was on Ibiblio. We can only include open source > software on the Ibiblio site.
You don't host non open source software on Ibiblio. Fair enough, but there needs to be a place to put "Free to use" but *not* open source that will be of use to Freedos (and DOS in general users) and useful used on DOS/Freedos. It requires written permission to host for download? What if the author has long since vanished and the product is abandonware and you can't *get* it? Being in violation of the license wouldn't be a concern here. Who on Earth might go you after about it? I am principal maintainer for a site called TextEditors.org The focus is what it says in site name. It's a wiki anyone can update. If it's a text editor running on a device, the wiki wants to document it. The hardware is runs on might be anything from an IBM Mainframe to a pocket calculator. Licenses also vary. An editor may be explicitly commercial, shareware, freeware, open source, or abandonware, where the code and docs are available but the author has long since vanished from the Internet. I don't care. I just specify what the license *is*, The one area where I draw a line is abandoned shareware. If it's abandoned, but the editor is fully functional without being registered,, I'll host it. If it's abandoned shareware that will not fully function without a license, and it's not possible to register it because long gone authors, I see no point to have it available. A lot of stuff I host is historical and long gone., as is the hardware it ran on. I do my best to provide pointers to documentation so viewers can learn about what it was, did, and its place in computer history. I think there needs to be a repository for stuff like Eric mentioned, with a pointer to the site from the Freedos.org home page explicitly stating "Only free and open source software may be hosted on Ibiblio. This URL points to a site not on Ibiblio with software that was recommended by Freedos user as generally useful DOS sofwaret that is free but *not* open source. If interested you may find it *here*." My concern is providing copies of and information *about* DOS and DOS software. If the software is free to use but *not* open source, I don't care. It may not be posted *on* Ibiblio, but DOS/Freedos users should be able to *find* it, with a pointer on Freedos.org to somewhere other than Ibiblio where it might live. > Jim _______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
