Wouldn't it have been smarter to request a relicense to LGPL for FreeDOS-32?
That would fix his problems....
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Christian Masloch <c...@bttr-software.de>wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, the last commit in the SVN for the project was in
> > 2007, so it's either abandoned, in hiatus, or going so slowly that no
> > commits have been pushed through in the last two years.
>
> I contacted Salvo a year or so ago and he said there's still work on a new
> version which will replace the current one. Here's what he wrote me:
>
> Salvo Isaja, 2008-05-27:
> > Now proceeding with very slow pace and restarting since the very
> > beginning, mainly due to licensing issues (i.e. the GPL is
> > unadeguate).
>
> [note that the GPL is the license of OSLib, not LGPL]
>
> Reading some old mailing list archives I found, I think it's something
> about the licensing of OSLib. As previously discussed in the BTTR Software
> forum, DOS-C (The FreeDOS Kernel) possibly violates the GPL by allowing to
> load non-GPL DOS device drivers. Now in FreeDOS-32's architecture the
> native drivers and applications are linked into the kernel or something,
> so the OSLib guy said they all have to be licensed under the GPL too when
> using OSLib.
>
> Regards,
> Christian
>
>
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