On Sun, 29 Oct 2017, Jim Hall wrote:
Without getting in the *Free Software* v *Open Source Software* debate, I believe FreeDOS should be available to everyone, and should never become closed source. For that reason, I contributed my FreeDOS work under the GNU GPL.
I personally use the latter, but have occasionally used the phrase "Four Freedoms Compliant Software" to make it *absolutely* clear what I'm talking about (since that's the bulwark of the definition of "open source" I use).
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That said, I'd love to see other tools become part of FreeDOS. If there was a DOS-native GCC that could generate 16-bit binaries in the different memory models, I'm all for that.
And that's probably the gotcha. Is GCC even capable of handling all those models? Though to be fair, it *might* (apart from the weirdness of having the segment shifted like it is) be able to handle the large or huge model, and isn't the medium model the classic "split i/d" of early Unices?
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