Re: [Freedos-devel] About Bret's license

2011-05-04 Thread Bernd Blaauw
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

Re: [Freedos-devel] About Bret's license

2011-05-04 Thread Christian Masloch
> Don't forget > http://www.osor.eu/eupl/european-union-public-licence-eupl-v.1.1 for > European developers, because it's compatible with GNU GPL v2 and is > available in 22 languages. I think you're allowed to use it even if you're no European citizen, aren't you? Still, isn't it GPL v3 incompa

Re: [Freedos-devel] About Bret's license

2011-05-04 Thread Robert Riebisch
Christian Masloch wrote: > [ * Personally (egoistically), I'd rather prefer the programs to be in the > public domain, or the license to be one of the well-known free software > licenses (MIT-style, 2/3-clause BSD, etc) that do not cause trouble, or > even other (common) ones like the GPL. B

[Freedos-devel] About Bret's license

2011-05-04 Thread Christian Masloch
As this is about software licensing issues, I want to state here: I'm not a lawyer and this e-mail does not contain any legal advice. Oh, and if you're easily annoyed by licensing issues then you might prefer not to read this thread. In "FreeDOS 1.1 (again)", dos386 wrote: > Bret's USBDOS (