On Thu, 16 May 2024 at 10:07, tom ehlert via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > there is no need for Microsoft to search its own archives. > MSDOS 6.22 source leaked to the internet some 22 years ago, and a plenty of > people have it.
Then MS would need to check this over, check it was correct and without Trojans etc. That at a minimum means finding its own copies and doing a file-by-file compare. That's effort and as we have discussed this is something it's unwilling to spend. > I don't understand how this would permit the "release under a permissive > licence". *If* the code was verified as unmodified MS code and _then_ *if* MS wrent to the extra work of removing all 3rd party code or obtaining clearance, it would then _and only then_ be able to relicence the resulting code. MS cannot relicense code it did not write. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven M: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
