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 -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
