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Re: Need a few testers



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In article <43eafd34$0$58113$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
Andy McFadden  <fadden@fadden.com> wrote:
>I've added a few features to CiderPress, the most significant of which
>is support for the HFS filesystem (up to 2GB).  This allows access to
>larger volumes on hard drives and CFFA cards, and lets you copy & paste
>Apple II data from CD-ROMs (A2ROMulan, Byteworks Opus ][, etc.) directly to
>disk images.
>
>Rather than reimplement the wheel, I used parts of the "hfsutils"
>package by Robert Leslie.  It appears this was also used in HFV Explorer,
>and I expect it's pretty stable.

Does this mean the next version of CiderPress will be free as in speech,
then?

(hfsutils was released under the GPL.  To legally distribute a version of
CiderPress that contains code from hfsutils, it would need to be released
under the GPL as well...unless you've made some other arrangement with the
author of hfsutils.)

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