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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Pascal/Delphi Kermit
Date: 22 Nov 2004 17:52:49 GMT
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On 2004-11-22, ckranich <lieben_sie_brahms@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am looking for implementing the Kermit protocol into an application.
> (I am a one-man company and doing special contract software in the
> auto-id market)
>
> Currently, our customer uses a registered version of Kermit-95
> but is not completely happy with it as it uses a flock of features
> he never will need and his point and click dudes have difficulties
> with the commandline interface.- So he is asking for something simple,
> included into some custom specific application.
>
I'd suggest you take a look at this:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ek.html
> When searching the net I found the QKKermit 3.0 (Ported from CP/M);
> Finally I realized that this also can be found in the Culumbia
> University ftp site.
>
This is ancient, nobody has even mentioned it in 16 years, and it
definitely does not have any of the protocol improvements from all those
years.
> QUESTION: What problems will arise if I implement an 'bread and
> butter' version in Pascal/Delphi and would like to include this into one
> of the following?:
> 1) a commercial closed source application
> 2) a GNU open source application
>
> The Kermit-95, C-Kermit are non opensource products of the Kermit project,
> which need licenses for non-personal use. What about QKermit and other
> pascal sources to be included into own libraries?
>
Whatever their copyright says.
> Might a 'clean room approach' (based on the protocol description only) be
> an alternate way to avoid copyright conflicts? Is there any license model
> for the above situation(kermit implementation in commercial applications)?
> How did all the builders of communications packages handle this issue?
>
They use E-Kermit.
- Frank