Henry Jensen wrote:
The source package of Debians dosemu contains a binary and a source
tarball of FreeDOS
That changes the matter entirely. If FreeDOS is included then there's a
direct dependency on non-free software. This wasn't immediately clear
from Debian's copyright file. It would be go
Henry Jensen wrote:
> Hello,.
>
> a user of my distro asked if we can include dosemu, another user said, that
> we can't because dosemu has freedom issues.
>
> To quote the user:
> "the DOS part needs OpenWatcom (OSS, but NOT libre) or TurboC/TurboC++
> (gratis not libre) to build." The "DOS pa
Hello Sam,
I am CC'ing this to the Parabola GNU/Linux list, since they have dosemu in their
community repo.
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:29:48 +0100
Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> So dosemu is libre and FreeDOS is libre, but FreeDOS can only be built
> with non-free tools?
Exactly.
> That last step is no
