by Bret » Wed Dec 17, 2008 4:01 am
I've modified the page so when you click the links it downloads the files using HTTP rather than FTP. Hopefully that will fix things so you can download the files.
I believe everything currently on the source code page is in assembly language. I use Eric Isaacson's A86/A386 assemblers to compile my assembly language programs. I have also written a few programs with Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS, but I don't think any of them are on the web site yet. They will be coming soon.
The language I use for licensing in the documentation is pretty simple -- in fact it's a little bit too simple. I'm working on changing that. Basically, the licensing now just says the programs are free to use, and that you cannot make a profit off of their use or their distribution. I'm going to be changing that in future programs to state that the programs are all still free, but also that any programs derived or related to them or their source code must also be free. Note that my definition of free is different than the Free Software Foundation's definition of free, however. FSF's mantra is "Think free speech, not free beer", and under FSF you are allowed to make a profit from the distribution of the "free" programs that you didn't have anything to do with creating. I understand their reasoning, but to me that is obscene.