On 29 March 2010 10:14, Saulius Krasuckas <sauli...@ar.fi.lt> wrote: > * On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
>> Out of interest, why were you visiting openwatcom.org? Are you also >> looking into Win16 tests for Wine? > Kind of. I was looking into licensing problems preventing its inclusion > in Debian. Seems like I should try starting negotiation between OWC folks > and Debian-legal experts on slight license changes. The problem is that the OpenWatcom licence is so unremittingly awful that debian-legal went "ahahaha, you must be joking" and quickly dismissed it. It obviously fails the DFSG in a ridiculous number of ways. Heck, reading it myself I'm reluctant to even *run* the software. I'm boggling that the OSI accepted it, given the OSI rules are based on the Debian rules. I did email licens...@fsf, who said they may try to negotiate with Sybase over getting it to actually being a free software licence. Because it would be an obviously good thing for a good DOS/Win16 compiler to be free software. I don't know if anyone at FSF has managed to do anything about this, though a legacy environment such as this is likely not the highest of priorities for a tiny charity of minimal resources. - d.