Hi Dennis, I *love* your TextEditors.org site! Thanks for your work! Coincidentally, I was just this moment browsing http://www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/editor-pre.html and it looks like all are broken links.
-Thomas NB: Some authors of an earlier era still living up to the idea that holding the software and/or source or sort-of-registration-process/registration fee etc. might still yield some income. Software market dynamics have changed so much since then (1990ies, DOS times) that more is lost then free the software at least for archives to study, try, play or even work with it. Most of it is of little commercial use on a large scale. (This should/could be read in the light of the »FSF« ideas, too.) Maybe it would need a broader manifesto about this issue and distributed in time before most of it is lost in digital oblivion? (See editor-list above and many many other sites/links) > On Sat,20210501- week17, at 22:58, dmccunney <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 3:26 PM Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 10:59 AM Eric Auer <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
