> On at 2022-07-17 13:32 -0400, Travis Siegel wrote: > >[..] > > I remember when opendos was released as opensource, (I have a copy of it > > around here somewhere), but I thought DRDOS was released as freeware > > sometime after that, though I don't remember where I might have seen > > that. I do not have a copy of that, though until recently, I did have a > > copy of original floppy distribution of DRDOS, but that got lost in our > > most recent move (or perhaps that was novel dos which is essentially > > opendos now that I think of it). > >[..] > > Am I barking up the wrong tree, or is this just me misremembering things?
On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 3:45 PM C. Masloch <pus...@ulukai.org> wrote: > > You aren't entirely right. There was the "OpenDOS" release, aka "Caldera > OpenDOS Machine Readable Source Kit (M.R.S) 7.01". It was redistributed > by the EDR-DOS project at drdosprojects.de (now down but the Wayback > Machine has the page [1]). This was "open" in name only though, and not > accepted as Open Source by the OSI nor Free Software by the FSF (nor by > me). The LICENSE.TXT file in this archive has some choice decisions like > these: > > > LIMITED LICENSE FOR EVALUATION, EDUCATIONAL AND NON-PROFIT USE > [..] Correct. The "OpenDOS" license was a "look but do not touch" license. It put a lot of restrictions on anyone who studied it. It was a very bad license. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
