On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 09:36 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Lubomir Rintel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm just reviewing a DOSEmu package, where the package author includes a > > tarball of FreeDOS installation (binary images of a couple of basic DOS > > utilities, shell and the kernel). I believe that it's probably illegal > > (provided it's GPL code, I have not checked) to do this unless we > > distribute sources as well. > > > > Would anyone mind if I told the maintainer just to include the source > > tarball in SRPM for now? Building the whole thing from source, while > > cleanly being possible, would add a huge amount of work at this point. > > > > Actually it is *not * possible to build freedos from source as this > requires (or atleast used to) non free tools such as Borland C 3. A brief search through the wiki [1] reveals that it might be possible to build it with Open Watcom C and nasm, though Open Watcom's license is unfortunatelly not allowed in Fedora :( [1] http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=FreeDOS_Spec#Programming_tools -- Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx> -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
