That's understandable, a possible compromise might be to put resource.txt
into dosemu2 which could tell installers that these resources are
available and point them to download locations if they'd like to have them
with an explanation about probable limitations on some or all of the 4
freedoms for the following resources in the top of that file. Even so,
having linux-msdos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is an excellent resource in and of
itself.
On Sun, 11 Apr 2021, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
Unfortunately it is not so easy to combine everything inside one repository.
This was considered, but there is a strong incentive to keep these things
separate.
Many software distributions are facing a dilemma on which software to offer
to users and which software had best be avoided. Part of this is related to
whether software provides recipients with all four freedoms or whether they
might restrictions in unexpected moments in case they want to use the
software for specific purposes (commercial) or have a requirement to
modify/distribute it. There are thus reasons for some to avoid distributing
or recommending software that doesn't guarantee there won't be restrictions,
instead seeking to provide only software for which full freedom is
guaranteed.
Therefore care was taken to avoid combining these scripts with DOSEMU2
itself. At this point DOSEMU2 itself and some software that runs in it, can
be handled without restrictions. The software that this script installs
cannot be easily modified as some of the tooling required to compile it has
restrictions. Future developments, either in removing restrictions from the
tooling used or by replacing this tooling may allow these tools to live more
closely together again.
Op 11-04-2021 om 13:47 schreef Jude DaShiell:
after a sudo make install and deleting a few old directories, I ran dosemu
-t and then ran insfdusr. I was told that no user space existed so exited
out of dosemu and went into the ~/builds/install-freedos-master/src
directory and ran freedos-installuserspace.
The downloads from the ibiblio archive happened and were successful.
Next dosemu -t and I find 6 directories on c: tmp was the only directory
earlier and I got a bin directory and doc and help and they're populated
with files.
install-freedos-master ought to go into dosemu with documentation so
things aren't so biforcated in the future.
