Open Source Campaign
To Contact
- ScreenSaver by Siegfried Hanisch
Contacted
- by Kevin G. McCoy- Reason: He is looking for the code.
- SystemInformationDisplay/2 and InetPowerServer by Terje Flaarønning - Reason: Told me that is Pascal and has third party code.
- WPSClean, LiveWire Communications by Les Novell - Reason: Confirmed identity on LinkedIn
- ICON2GIF, RAVE! by J. Ashley Roeckelein - Reason: Contacted via Linkedin.
- NeoN Grafix 3D by Jens Stutte - Reason: He is thinking about it and need to request permission to other author.
- Nicki's USBCamera-To-HardDrive-Thingy by Peter Brown - Reason: He is thinking about it.
- Conversion Pro, Alcahest PM GUI by Jon F. Kaminsky - Reason: Concern about dependencies.
- Watchcat/2 by Felix von Normann, Thomas Opheys
- FolderOpen, newobj by Matt Linder - Reason: He is thinking about it.
- TrafficVisor II, IRC Bot, REXX PPP Server by Vasilkin Andrey - Reason: He is thinking about traficvissor]].
- Impos/2 by Werner Broermann - - Reason: He will probably do it, but I never got a reply.
Agreed
This is the list of people that agreed to open source their software, but they are still looking for the source code to make it public.
- Julien Pierre -Reason: He is looking for MM Pack
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- Dennis Caffi - Home Automation System/2 - Reason: He is looking for the source code.
- David DuPre' - PMWeather - Reason: He is looking for the source code.
- Dave Boll - RXU - Reason: He is looking for the source code.
- Frank Wochatz - Reason: He wants to know where to post the code.
- Kelly Schrock -Reason: He is looking for OS/2 source code. He gave permission to give his software as freeware.
- Kevin Langman - Reason: He is looking for his archives.
- Facelift Theme Creator - Tim Mecking - Reason: He is looking for his archives.
- John C. Frickson - Gibbon Talk - Reason: Can't contact him anymore. He was looking for media. Not sure if he can recover it.
- Chris Laforet - Simplex - Reason: Agreed. He is looking for the source code.
- Mario Sebastiani - Account Manager, Syncro - Reason: Agreed. He is looking for the source code.
- Denis Tazetdinov - Modified scroll-point mouse driver, Dialer/2, Easyrecord (PMRecord) - Reason: He is looking for the source code.
- David Thacker - TelnetP - Reason: He don't have the HDD password to access it.
- Ricardo Mayrink - PMNapster - Reason: He is looking for the source code.
- Carrick von Schoultz - PMVDesk, PMSnap - Reason: He is looking for the source code.
- Michael Rydberg - Workplace Security
- Jesper Nielsen - EqEd/2
- Jobst Schmalenbach - Initor - Reason: It is already GNU GPL but I can not find the source code.
- Douglas Clark - Zombie WinOS2 Program object
- Kai Evers - ConfigMaint
- David Forrester - Battery Widget, SETIView/2, ...
- Norbert Heller - Albatros Player/2, InfoPM
- Viet-Tam Luu - Blackbook
- Kim Foder - The Wall, Calculator/2 , CD-Side, OS/2 touch utility, Blocks, Lasat Speed II, WhatsOn
- Andreas Portele - AnPoCodec
- Andreas Röderer, Jörg Sievers - Tyra/2
- Rossen Assenov- Robotics Messenger/2
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- Ray Gwinn - Ray Gwinn's SIO 2000 driver
- Harald Wilhelm - Syslevel Editor / Problem tracker, Class Browser
- Lutz Wagner - CD Magic, PMRaw, The Backup Demon/2, Text2Img, sqlMate, phpGUI, PMExif, Calydos, ImgMeta by - Reason: Agreed to open some of them as Public Domain.
Lost Source Code
- Ola Brahammar - Brahammars Mandelbrot Toy - Reason: Lost floppies.
- Ernest Christley - WPSaver and Type/2 Typing Tutor - Reason: Was not able to find source code.
- Lawrence McAlpin - DreamWorld Adveture - Source code not found. Given permission to Public Domain binaries.
- Vincent Greene - Vicent Greene Screen Saver - Reason: Source code not found. Given permission to Public Domain binaries.
- VRExtras Object Pack for VX-REXX and VRDistributedConnection object By Peter Kanis - Reason: Source code lost. He turned his binaries into public domain.
- WPSClean, LiveWire Communications by Les Novell: Backups was lost.
- PMStat by Gerald Callow: He no longer has the source code.
- Freeware and Shareware by Dan Holt: The source code is lost.
- Launch Thing by Gerard J. Piek: The source code is lost.
- REXXSEM by Darin McBride: Source code lost. Gave permission to reverse engineer.
- Several software by Antonino Iannella
- ESS Audio Mixer by Oleg Deribas
- ExCal by Dan Kehn
- PREPLOGO by Jonathan Czerwinski
- Secure Desktop, WPS-Watchdog by Jürgen Dankoweit
- OS/2 MineSweeper by Gordon Reeder
- ProTalk by Brian Fisher
- WNice by Carsten Thornez
- Icontalk by Doug Azzarito
- ICQ/2 and CallerID by Ed Ng
- Alfons by Mikael Kjellström
- Answering Machine/2 by Sacha Prins
- Clone-Cleaner by Ed March
- Xit by Michael Shillingford
- Class Manager by Andrea Zaccagnini
- PMCPU by Patrick
- MPEG Player, Alarm Clock by Thomas Bradford
- 3DBar, LM78 by Stefano Zamprogno
- WebWriter/2, Network Configuration Manager by John Blumel
- Planets, Hangaman, QuoteMan/2 by Everett Barnes
- ADRp by Timo Maier
- PPMU by Denny Mleinek
- Carlsberg tools by Bent Panduro
- DATES by Graham Stair
No desire to open
- Michael Vulis - Reason: He does not have time to prepare and send me the source code.
- Martin Vieregg - Reason: He still supports his software.
- GpfREXX by Jean-Bernard Clerin by Reason - His software is an IDE which scambled REXX. If he turns it open source any program developed with GpfREXX can be un-scambled.
- PRXUTILS - Reason - W. David Ashley can not open PRXUTILS because he signed and agrement with Gammatech. I'm looking for Benny N. Ormson
- SuperPreview by Larry Bank - Reason: The software has his proprietary code for other software he commercialize today.
- Animouse by Tony Terbizan - Reason:He agreed to Make it freeware. He need Dan Libby to find the source code.
- Dinar by MLK Enterprises - Reason: "no"
- RptView by Randy Cecrle - Reason: "It is a commercial product under Windows, can not be released."
- Kermit by Frank Da Cruz - Reason: "He stills supports it"
- Priority Master by Ted Waldron III - Reason: "He spend too much time with the OS/2 version and don't want to open. He will be willing to sell the OS/2 Source code."
- MicroStation by Dario Ragazzini - Reason: "Belongs to bentley"
- Dr. Dialog by David C. Morrill - Reason: He told me there was too much dependecias for Dr.Dialog.
- EuraPM, Translator, TOM, PlayRec & Copywave, pmmerge.dll patch, add on for Visual Age 3.0 patch, CleanINI, isdn4you, NDB, ndbPM, ndbPM by Carsten Arnold - Reason: He don't feel ready to open source it. Too much work."
- icq2, AutoBMP by Gene Akins - Reason: He passed away.
- Dialog Enhancer by Richard Castle - Reason: He passed the Source Code To Serenity
- BlueCAD by CadWare - Reason: Support replied that is freeware and that there is no interest on open sourcing it.
- Unimaint, Filestar/2, FlexEdit by Jim Read - Reason:Not ready to open source yet.
- IBM OS/2 API Trace by Dave Blaschke - Reason: He told me that the API trace utility is IBM Copyright, he is going to ask for permission, and there is also some copyright free source code for tracing API calls.
Open Sourced
When the source code gets released it goes to this list: