Hi, I feel I should clear up the confusion a bit, as official DOSEMU maintainer. Yes, it is true that life has changed quite a bit for me since 2007 and I am now chasing two small children after work which does not leave as much energy or time to work on DOSEMU. There has however been some activity, after 1.4.0 in SVN, the 1.4.0.1 patch release in 2008, and quite a bit of development in git since Stas returned last year. The distributions now release based on git that we tried to keep in a stable state (the devel branch in git is allowed to change more). So, if somebody skilled with more time than me puts in all the effort to release a new version of DOSEMU I should welcome that. However, this is not the case here: 1. "dosemu-reborn" is practically the same as dosemu 1.4.0 but with licensing changes, some formatting changes and adds "#DOSEMU was reborn by Devyn Collier Johnson" at various places. A "2.0" should be instead (IMHO) based on git, be heavily tested, and come with a proper list of user-visible changes (and not a deleted NEWS file). 2. The license was changed from GPLv2-only to GPLv3-only. Sorry, you cannot do that in a fork. While I personally have no problem with GPLv3, you would have to ask all copyright holders to make such a change, or replace all code by those copyright holders (the dosemu files that say "GPLv2 or later" are the exceptions). (Quite similarly you cannot fork the Linux kernel under GPLv3 either). So while I have no problems with people forking, in the way it is done here I stronly object, and will only confuse people. But I will gladly pass maintainership to somebody who can release a "DOSEMU 2.0" that truly deserves that title. Regards, Bart Oldeman On 9 July 2013 09:11, Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Aloha DOSEMU Users! > > I want to info everyone that DOSEMU has been released and is no longer > abandonware. Feel free to contribute to the new DOSEMU team and help DOSEMU > compete with DOSbox. > > https://launchpad.net/dosemu-reborn > > Mahalo, > > Devyn Collier Johnson > DevynCJohnson@xxxxxxxxx > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
