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From: darkstar@chopin.udel.edu (Jerry Alexandratos)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: how to get DOS kermit c source code?
Date: 19 Oct 1995 13:35:08 -0400
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In article <465u7q$kpu@mars.mcs.com>, Leslie Mikesell <les@MCS.COM> wrote:
:In article <1995Oct15.111935.63789@cc.usu.edu>,
:Joe Doupnik <jrd@cc.usu.edu> wrote:
:>> I only can get unix or vax kermit c source code
:>> via archie or net serach.
:>-----------
:> The only Columbia Univ DOS Kermit is MS-DOS Kermit. It is mostly
:>assembler plus the TCP/IP part is in C. It is fully copyrighted and thus
:>one can't steal the source code without legal agreement.
:> Joe D.
:
:No matter how many times I see this it still grates on my nerves as
:I recall the old kermit documents that described how the name was
:chosen and said something to the effect that "kermit is free and
:always will be". (Or is my memory at fault here?) I have nothing
:against proprietary products, but couldn't you have changed the
:name when the philosophy changed?
:
:Les Mikesell
: les@mcs.com
Kermit is free. But that doesn't mean that the source code can't be
copyrighted. Just because Kermit is available to everyone doesn't mean
that the source code is there to be butchered by everyone (at least not
without the author's consent).
The philosophy didn't change, just the times.
--Jerry
--
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