Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: Public domain packet driver clearing house Message-ID: Date: 17 Feb 89 19:25:18 GMT References: <8902161344.aa26497@Obelix.TWG.COM> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 39 In-reply-to: ljm@TWG.COM's message of 16 Feb 89 19:39:00 GMT Perhaps you meant to call them "Freely copyable". I don't have any public domain drivers -- they're all copyrighted. The header and trailer parts of all the drivers is copyrighted by myself, so I hold an interest in all of the packet drivers that I distribute. However, the following people are responsible for their own copyrights: 3c501 - Phil Karn (bellcore) 3c503 - Bob Clements (bbn) NI5010 - Bill Doster (umich) NI5210 - Tim Krauskopf (uiuc's ncsa) SLIP8250 - Phil Karn (bellcore) wd8003e - Bob Clements (bbn) To my knowledge, Bob Clements is the only person who has actually written any packet driver code. I have transferred the copyrights from existing code (C and ASM) written by the other three people to the packet drivers. In article <8902161344.aa26497@Obelix.TWG.COM> ljm@TWG.COM (Leo J McLaughlin) writes: I propose that a clearing house for public domain packet drivers be created. Sounds good to me. How about using sun.soe.clarkson.edu as the repository? We already run an archive server from which the drivers are available for those people who cannot FTP. As Wollongong's contribution to this clearing house, we will put in the public domain each of our drivers as they are converted to conform to the packet driver specification. This list currently includes 3Com's 3c500, 3c503, 3c505 and 3c523, MICOM's NI5010, Western Digital's WD8003, Proteon's P1300, the BICC4110, a SLIP interface, and our IP over NetBIOS and IP over IPX interfaces. Great! However, I suggest that you retain a copyright, giving the same permissions as the existing drivers. This will retain your name on the drivers, giving you credit and "free" advertising. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) If you can, help others. If you can't, at least don't hurt others--the Dalai Lama