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  1. THIS DIRECTORY:  Projects with defective licence status that might be 
  2. fixed, and for a few that seem worth keeping around even though they're 
  3. technically unlicensed and are destined to remain so (e.g., Doc).
  4.  
  5.  
  6. o  All offerings under genuinely open-source / free-software licence terms 
  7.    are in the main, parent directory (above this one).
  8.  
  9. o  All open-source development tools / documentation for PalmOS are in
  10.    subdirectory "development".
  11.  
  12. o  All open-source other-OS-based data-exchange & similar tools are in 
  13.    subdirectory "other-os".
  14.  
  15. o  All offerings under proprietary licence terms are in the subdirectory
  16.    named "proprietary" (sibling to this one).
  17.  
  18.  
  19.  
  20.         Date/Time of
  21.    Size File Arrival Filename           Description
  22. ------- ------------ ------------       -----------
  23.    9804 980619 03:35 00index.txt        This file you are reading.
  24.  108701 Feb 26 20:35 cryptopad-3.6.tar.gz   
  25.                                         CryptoPad is a Blowfish-encrypted 
  26.                                         replacement for PalmOS Memopad, by
  27.                                         Maxime Labelle & Jean-Baptiste Labelle.
  28.                                         C source code and PalmOS binary with
  29.                                         no licence stated.  Includes a port
  30.                                         of Eric A. Young's Blowfish crypto 
  31.                                         library, which is BSD-style licensed.
  32.                                         From:
  33.                                         http://www.multimania.com/mlabelle/
  34.   18937 Feb 18 14:08 geordi-0.57.10-palmos3.5-bin.tar.gz
  35.                                         GEORDI is a general tool for remote
  36.                                         administration of Unix systems from a
  37.                                         PalmOS device, by Stephen Okay and 
  38.                                         Gale Pedowitz.  Licence terms to their
  39.                                         code are so far unstated, and code
  40.                                         includes PalmOS SDK's NetSocket.c,
  41.                                         a CRC32 module by Craig Bruce and Mark
  42.                                         R. Nelson with unstated licence terms,
  43.                                         and a piece of TopGun SSH.  PalmOS
  44.                                         binaries for PalmOS 3.5.
  45.                                         From:
  46.                                         http://www.geordi.org/
  47. 1074529 Feb  1 14:53 geordi-0.57.10-src.tar.gz
  48.                                         GEORDI is a general tool for remote
  49.                                         administration of Unix systems from a
  50.                                         PalmOS device, by Stephen Okay and 
  51.                                         Gale Pedowitz.  Licence terms to their
  52.                                         code are so far unstated, and code 
  53.                                         includes PalmOS SDK's NetSocket.c,
  54.                                         a CRC32 module by Craig Bruce and Mark
  55.                                         R. Nelson with unstated licence terms,
  56.                                         and a piece of TopGun SSH.  C source
  57.                                         code.  Requires PalmOS SDK 3.5.x or 4.0,
  58.                                         prc-tools 2.0.92 or above, and pilrc
  59.                                         2.7.x or above.
  60.                                         From:
  61.                                         http://www.geordi.org/
  62.   19052 Feb 18 14:08 geordi-0.57.45-palmos4-bin.tar.gz
  63.                                         GEORDI is a general tool for remote
  64.                                         administration of Unix systems from a
  65.                                         PalmOS device, by Stephen Okay and 
  66.                                         Gale Pedowitz.  Licence terms to their
  67.                                         code are so far unstated, and code
  68.                                         includes PalmOS SDK's NetSocket.c,
  69.                                         a CRC32 module by Craig Bruce and Mark
  70.                                         R. Nelson with unstated licence terms,
  71.                                         and a piece of TopGun SSH.  PalmOS
  72.                                         binary for PalmOS 4.0.
  73.                                         From:
  74.                                         http://www.geordi.org/
  75. 1103121 Mar  3  2002 geordi_0.57.61.tar.gz
  76.                                         Ugh, now no licence.  Source code.
  77.   60815 Mar  3  2002 geordi_0.57.61_palmos-3.5.prc
  78.                                         Ugh, now no licence.  PalmOS 3.5 binary.
  79.   60815 Mar  3  2002 geordi_0.57.61_palmos-4.0.prc
  80.                                         Ugh, now no licence.  PalmOS 4.0 binary.
  81.    9621 Jan 12 00:09 imagecompressor-src-0.01.tar.gz
  82.                                         ImageCompressor utility for background
  83.                                         usage by other programs (such as 
  84.                                         TinyViewer) to store and load images in
  85.                                         compressed form, by Ken Shirriff.  
  86.                                         Source code under a licence with no 
  87.                                         right of source code redistribution.[1]
  88.                                         From:
  89.                                         http://www.righto.com/pilot/tv.html
  90.  14184 Dec  7 23:54 lines-color-1.2c.tar.gz
  91.                                         LinesColor is a colour version of 
  92.                                         Dmitry Gorodchanin's Lines game, by
  93.                                         Konstantin Klyatskin.  PalmOS binary 
  94.                                         under the GNU GPL -- but with the
  95.                                         source kept unavailable, in apparent
  96.                                         violation of Gorodchanin's licence
  97.                                         terms.  From:
  98.                                         http://195.128.67.93/
  99.   13881 Dec  7 23:56 lines-color-src-1.2c.tar.gz
  100.                                         LinesColor is a colour version of
  101.                                         Dmitry Gorodchanin's Lines game, by
  102.                                         Konstantin Klyatskin.  This file is 
  103.                                         the alleged source code archive as
  104.                                         required by the GNU GPL -- but is
  105.                                         incomplete.  All my inquiries to 
  106.                                         Klyatskin about this situation have
  107.                                         been ignored (although they were 
  108.                                         successfully delivered).  One is left
  109.                                         to strongly suspect that he is violating
  110.                                         Gorodchanin's licence terms.  From:
  111.                                         http://195.128.67.93/
  112.   17129 Dec  9 02:01 pilotdoc-1.72.tar.gz
  113.                                         Rick Bram's (rickbram@digitalglyph.com)
  114.                                         original DOC reader (named "Doc").  
  115.                                         PalmOS binary, only.  Licence unstated.
  116.                                         [1]  Bram reports that he deliberately 
  117.                                         is keeping his codebase proprietary, 
  118.                                         especially in light of his 1997 
  119.                                         commercial-usage licence to Aportis.
  120.   13824 Nov 22 17:08 pilotdoc144.zip    Rick Bram's (rickbram@digitalglyph.com)
  121.                                         original DOC reader (named "Doc").  
  122.                                         PalmOS binary, only.  Licence unstated.
  123.                                         [1]  Bram reports that he deliberately 
  124.                                         is keeping his codebase proprietary, 
  125.                                         especially in light of his 1997 
  126.                                         commercial-usage licence to Aportis.
  127.    6918 Dec 13 21:50 rollingcubes-src.tar.gz
  128.                                         Rolling Cubes puzzle from John Harris's
  129.                                         1975-03 Scientific American puzzle.
  130.                                         By Ken Shirriff.  Source code under a
  131.                                         free-usage licence with no right of
  132.                                         source code redistribution.[1]  From:
  133.                                         http://www.righto.com/pilot/cubes.html
  134.    2662 Dec 13 21:50 rollingcubes.tar.gz
  135.                                         Rolling Cubes puzzle from John Harris's
  136.                                         1975-03 Scientific American puzzle.
  137.                                         By Ken Shirriff.  PalmOS binary, under
  138.                                         a free-usage licence with no right of
  139.                                         source code redistribution.[1]  From:
  140.                                         http://www.righto.com/pilot/cubes.html
  141.   10114 Apr 26 14:35 savetohost-1.0.tar.gz
  142.                                         SaveToHost is a utility for the PalmOS
  143.                                         Emulator (POSE) environment, to permit
  144.                                         a text buffer to be read from or 
  145.                                         written to the host environment.  C 
  146.                                         source code and PalmOS bianry by Steven
  147.                                         Kienle, sckienle@worldnet.att.net.  
  148.                                         Proprietary for lack of licence terms.
  149.                                         From:
  150.                                         http://home.att.net/~sckienle/palm/
  151.   26651 Jan 12 00:05 tinyviewer-1.04.tar.gz
  152.                                         Utility to display images in ImageViewer
  153.                                         (a proprietary "shareware" utility) 
  154.                                         format.  Includes ImageCompressor.  By
  155.                                         Ken Shirriff.  PalmOS binary under a 
  156.                                         free-usage licence with no right of 
  157.                                         source code redistribution.[1]  From:
  158.                                         http://www.righto.com/pilot/tv.html
  159.   15810 Jan 12 00:10 tinyviewer-src-1.04.tar.gz
  160.                                         Utility to display images in ImageViewer
  161.                                         (a proprietary "shareware" utility)
  162.                                         format.  Includes ImageCompressor.  By
  163.                                         Ken Shirriff.  Source code under a
  164.                                         free-usage licence with no right of 
  165.                                         source code redistribution.[1]  From:
  166.                                         http://www.righto.com/pilot/tv.html
  167.   21137 Dec  8 13:41 wabburami-0.9w-b10.tar.gz
  168.                                         Wabburami is the classic Hammurabi
  169.                                         game, coded in Waba for PalmOS, by
  170.                                         David M. Archer.  PalmOS binary.
  171.                                         Based on Sun's Rumor game distributed 
  172.                                         at the 1999 JavaOne developer 
  173.                                         conference, and on a C code version 
  174.                                         Archer found in SCO's Open License 
  175.                                         Software Supplement (Skunkware)
  176.                                         archive, ftp.sco.com/skunkware/ .
  177.                                         It is unclear what licence, if any,
  178.                                         the resulting derivative work falls
  179.                                         under.[1]  From:
  180.                                         From:
  181.                                         http://wabburami.sourceforge.net/
  182.   19978 Dec  1 22:27 wabburami.java     Wabburami is the classic Hammurabi
  183.                                         game.  Waba source code for PalmOS, by
  184.                                         David M. Archer, based on Sun's Rumor
  185.                                         game distributed at the 1999 JavaOne
  186.                                         developer conference, and on a C code
  187.                                         version Archer found in SCO's Open
  188.                                         License Software Supplement (Skunkware)
  189.                                         archive, ftp.sco.com/skunkware/ .
  190.                                         It is unclear what licence, if any,
  191.                                         the resulting derivative work falls 
  192.                                         under.[1]  From:
  193.                                         http://wabburami.sourceforge.net/
  194.  
  195.  
  196.  
  197.  
  198.  
  199. [1] Source code (lawfully) released to the public without any licence is
  200. technically _proprietary_ software, as recipients have (under USA law, 
  201. at least) only the implied right to download, compile, use, and modify 
  202. it, and to distribute modifications as patches -- but not to further 
  203. distribute the original code, or modified versions thereof.
  204. As the saying goes, no licence means unlicensed.  (See:  17 USC 117,
  205. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/117.html)
  206.  
  207. (In that strict sense, I have no permission to distribute Doc, ImageCompressor,
  208. Rolling Cubes, TinyViwer, or wabburami, but think it highly unlikely their 
  209. authors would object -- and technically listing lines-color here violates
  210. Dmitry Gorodchanin's licence for Lines, but I list it here mostly to call 
  211. attention to the copyright issue.)
  212.  
  213. Programmers should beware of the no-licence issue:  All the claims you 
  214. see of such code being "freely distributable" or "public domain" (on no
  215. better evidence than it having no licence statement) are, strictly 
  216. speaking, factually in error, and it cannot be safely used in open-source 
  217. AKA free-software projects.  (It is legally possible for a grant of 
  218. licence to be oral, or through conduct, etc., but do you want to rely 
  219. on that, let alone merely assume it?)
  220.  
  221. By the way, please don't blame Ken Shirriff for his licence:  It's the
  222. best that his employer's (Sun Microsystems's) lawyers would allow him to
  223. use.
  224.  
  225.