License Status of commercial software

List of former commercial software now released by the original owners into the public domain as freeware or as open source. Before contacting the authors of any software to enquire about programs with unconfirmed status, please be sure to check someone has not already asked and is awaiting an answer. Open, unresolved queries are shown under "STATUS UNDER ENQUIRY". Thank you.
(updated: Jan 2012)

Please add entries in alphabetical order. Thank you.

Confirmed as Freeware OR Open Source

Applications and Utilities

• 3D-Calc
• All Digital Arts (DA) packages released via ACP.
• Luna
• MyMail
• Photoline - SN: 645762849
• Resource Master 3.65 - English RSC at DDP Translations
• Thing - Reg. User: "PublicACP" SN: ochl Piie juQd Kg6h kfUW ZiTh zbBr UHbx
• Tracked (HD utils)
• Xairon - SN: XALRQVIRT

Confirmed as Commercial (NOT Freeware or Open Source)

Applications and Utilities

• TEMPUS WORD
• PAPYRUS - ROM LOGIC (UNDER ENQUIRY)
• Magic 6.20
• Jinnee 2.5
• Kobold
• CAB 2.8
• ASH Artworx
• ASH Emailer
• Phoenix
• Pure Pascal
• Signum!4
• Texel
• Calamus SL
• HDDriver Uwe Seimet
• ExtenDOS 4 Anodyne Software
• CD Writer suite v4 Anodyne Software
• Diamond Edge Anodyne Software

Status under enquiry

• Papyrus (ROM Logicware)
• Geneva (Gribnif Software)

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