Op 4-5-2011 15:01, Christian Masloch schreef: > Bret's USBDOS (free& OS, not GPL) > I'm not sure whether Bret's license would be accepted by the OSI or FSF > though. The part that I'm concerned about most would be this:
Out of necessity, FreeDOS has usually been distributed together with various non-opensource / non-GPL components, with the only requirement that permission was granted for redistribution. Besides USBDOS, you can think of various other programs which aren't opensource, have been distributed with FreeDOS, and might have source code available: * 4DOS (source released by JPSOFT, further developed by Lucho) * ELTORITO driver (Bart Lagerweij's driver for booting DOS in ISO9660 Eltorito non-emulation mode, program open sourced nowadays, as part of Syslinux) * UIDE (Jack's chipset driver for storage devices and optical disk drives, PIO and UDMA for PATA/IDE, and legacy mode support for SATA. AHCI support limited?) * EXTRACT (from WinImage, to get files out of a floppy image file) * JEMM386 and everything before it, using Artistic License nowadays * Whatever else I forget. claiming 1 or more of above mentioned programs are opensource, might not be wise :) Basicly, a warning might be in place for non-opensource components. As to who decides this kind of stuff, I guess it's Jim as project coordinator (unless Pat still is) together with whoever makes the next 'official' distribution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
