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- From: peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Peter N Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Is "Programmers Online Companion" going to be updated?
- Message-ID: <peter-260892100123@134.7.50.3>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 02:06:46 GMT
- References: <mxmora-210892142616@css-mac1.sri.com> <1992Aug24.030458.25814@cs.brown.edu> <peter-250892141421@134.7.50.3> <BtJzno.CrK@taligent.com>
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- Organization: NCRPDA, Curtin University
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- In article <BtJzno.CrK@taligent.com>, keith@taligent.com (Keith Rollin)
- wrote:
- >
- > In article <peter-250892141421@134.7.50.3>, peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Peter N
- > Lewis) writes:
- > >
- > > Well, you could do this I guess. Except that I've already done it, as well
- > > as writeing my own clone of POLC, which I've been using for six months, and
- > > which I would love to release free, but I have not been able to sort out
- > > the required US$100 to license the PInterfacesHelp file, on which the
- > > database is created (the database is created by running an automatic parser
- > > over the PInterfacesHelp file, thus ensuring rapid updates as new systems
- > > come out).
-
- > Could you just send out you homebrew POLC along with the converter program
- > that creates the database file from PInterfaces? There shouldn't be any
- > problem with that.
-
- Since several people have asked me this in mail, I'll state it in news,
- yes, I could just do that, but since the PInterfacesHelp file is no longer
- available on ftp.apple.com (or anywhere else to my knowledge), and since I
- am one of the people who does not own a copy myself, I'd end up not being
- able to legally use my own software :)
-
- > I remember, ages ago, on the Apple II, Glen Bredon disassembled and commented
- > the AppleSoft object code. He wasn't allowed to send out his results directly
- > (because it included Apple copyrighted code converted to human readable form),
- > but he was able to send out a little program that would _create_ a commented
- > source file based on his file of comments. The program disassembled the
- > AppleSoft ROMs and added his comments to each line.
-
- Somehow I think it would be against my best interests to go out of my way
- to annoy Apple :), also, I would have done exactly as you stated (releasing
- the parser (which I will release anyway)) if the PInterfacesHelp file was
- publicly available, but it isn't.
-
- Hopefully I will be able to sort out licensing the file with some
- assistance from various people in the states, and then everything will be
- rosy (more or less :-)
-
- Have fun all,
- Peter.
-
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