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unclear origins and author RIP #12
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https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos-32/mailman/message/3995210/ |
Hello, I am the lead software engineer at Centroid Corp. The author who has passed away (Allen Cheung) was a former co-worker of mine. I am aware of the email sent to Centroid Corp. inquiring about the copyright that Allen had placed into one or more FreeDOS related files. We are interested in helping you out, but want to make sure that Allen did not post any files that were not FreeDOS related. If this is the case, please let me know and we (Centroid Corp.) will work it out with you. If you have other files that are copyright by Centroid Corp. that are not related to the FreeDOS project, then we would of course want to review those files. |
Hello and thanks for the very quick reply! The only file I have that is copyrighted by Centroid Corp,
Yes, the first thing to find out is whether Allen himself
Of course my hope is that, after 20+ years have passed and Thanks! |
@keithdennison Thank you. |
Stas,
Yes, you have the right to distribute the code (
https://github.com/stsp/comcom32/blob/master/command.c) under GNU GPL v3+
license.
Regards,
Keith Dennison
Centroid Corp.
Lead Software Engineer
…On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 6:54 AM Stas Sergeev ***@***.***> wrote:
@keithdennison <https://github.com/keithdennison>
It would be quite upsetting if this issue to remain
unresolved. While, on one hand, this may implicitly
mean I can continue the work on the project under
the GNU GPL license terms, on the other hand this
may bring problems submitting this software to the
free software distributions, like Debian or Fedora.
The sign that you became aware of the code dump,
may not be enough for them.
So just one word of confirmation, like
"Yes, you have the right to distribute that code
under GNU GPL v3+ license" will really help.
And yes, I am going to put this software to all the
popular linux distributions, so this may also be
good as some PR for your company. For example
I can make the copyrights more visible (displayed
at start-up) etc, if this will help you to take a decision.
Thank you.
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Thank you very much! |
The use of GPLv3+ was confirmed by Centroid Corp here: #12 (comment)
I added the appropriate copyright headings to the file |
This comcom32 seems to have unclear origins:
https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos-32/mailman/message/3995213/
Contrary to what is said here, I can't find this post by an author.
And very unfortunately we can't contact an author, as he died.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/centredaily/obituary.aspx?n=Allen-S.Cheung&pid=181402633
So the only hope is if someone who googles better than
me, can find the original source code dump.
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