Public domain and DSFGness

2019-06-12 Thread David Given
I'm doing some historical data preservation work, trying to track down licensing for some really old (late 1970s and early 1980s) CP/M software. I'm using 'good enough to get into Debian main' as my ideal win condition here because it's a pretty high bar and if it's good enough for Debian it's good

Re: Public domain and DSFGness

2019-06-12 Thread Ben Finney
David Given writes: > I'm doing some historical data preservation work […] I'm hoping to be > able to produce a Debian package containing this stuff eventually for > use in emulators. Thank you for promoting the preservation and spread of free software. > Back then people were really slack abou

Re: Public domain and DSFGness

2019-06-12 Thread David Given
Specifically? I'm trying to produce a CP/M clone distribution which is DSFG-enough to ship with emulators (and also to run on real hardware should people wish). The original Digital Research source has a nasty clause in it which, AFAICT accidentally, means it can't be redistributed, so I'm finding