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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: Long filenames in msdos kermit?
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In article <collins.875992658@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu>,
Skip Collins <collins@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> wrote:
: Do you have any objections to me trying to get C Kermit to compile and
: run under GNU-Win32?
:
We have put about three years of round-the-clock work into a product that
already runs under Windows 95 and NT, so even if you could adapt C-Kermit to
Win32, it would be a tiny subset of Kermit 95 -- no terminal emulator, etc.
What would be the point? We already have a product for Win32; we don't need
another one. If you want to contribute something to the Kermit Project, you
could develop a Kermit program for some platform that is not covered at all
yet (various palmtops come to mind) or one that is not adequately supported,
like the Macintosh.
I know everybody wants free software, and there's plenty of it out there. If
you want a free communications package for Windows 95 or NT, you're perfectly
welcome to search the Web for it, or write one yourself from scratch, and use
it in good health. But Kermit 95 is not free because it has full-time people
behind it to support it and develop further to meet the needs and wishes of
its users, year after year.
In any case, the Columbia University copyright on C-Kermit is not compatible
with the GNU copyright -- this is a simple fact, there is no need to debate
it -- and so there is not much chance that C-Kermit can or will ever become
a GNU component.
- Frank