Re: Policy change on emulators

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On Tuesday, 03 May 2016 at 21:23, Tom Callaway wrote:
> On 05/03/2016 03:14 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> > Does this mean that, if we strip FreeDOS out of dosemu / dosemu2, we can
> > ship it and even point to a website with FreeDOS binaries?
> > 
> > AIUI the only problem with FreeDOS is that no one knows how to compile
> > it with a free software toolchain.  As far as I know, the binary is
> > pretty clearly redistributable.  (Hmm.  Could FreeDOS ship as a firmware
> > blob?  That seems dubious to me.)
> 
> Are the FreeDOS sources under a Fedora-acceptable license?

A cursory look at their website suggests they're licensed under the GPL.
I haven't checked which version, exactly.

They say their reference C compiler is the Open Watcom C, which seems
to be distributed under this license:
ftp://ftp.openwatcom.org/pub/license.txt . The license seems complicated
and probably non-free in Fedora terms.

Regards,
Dominik
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