Hi, Rube, long time no see! N.B. I had to fish this out of my Gmail Spam folder. (Blame their bad heuristics.)
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Reuben Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm a GNU hacker. I've been playing with FreeDOS and recent Emacs; Just FYI, I've seen the latest source snapshot, and it's actually here unpacked on this hard drive. But I regret that I've been too physically tired to try (again) to rebuild it. The previous snapshot had some minor errors, so I was too dumb or unlucky to rebuild that successfully. I probably should've posted about it to the DJGPP newsgroup, but activity there is quite low. I didn't want to burden anyone. Honestly, it can't be that hard to fix (for FreeDOS), to say the least. ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-24.3.92.tar.xz (38 MB) (I know Eli Z. still actively maintains it, but GNU removed mention of "MS-DOS" [sic] from their webpage sometime last year.) http://web.archive.org/web/20130616174608/http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ As has been mentioned very recently (by Juan Manuel Guerrero), FreeDOS is not normally a primary target of DJGPP due to minor issues (probably can be easily worked around but somewhat tedious, and DJGPP has limited time available already). > as part of the discussion, Richard Stallman asked me to enquire whether you > would > like FreeDOS to be listed as a free non-GNU system on gnu.org: > > http://gnu.org/distros/free-non-gnu-distros.html > > You'd be only the second! I'm not sure I'm the best to answer this. I could go on and on about various details and licenses involved. Long story short: a lot of things are tenuous at best. Maybe it's better if I let others try to sort out the details. If you want a direct and honest reply, I could give it (as best of my ability), but it may not be totally reliable. Different people have different opinions, so I don't know who to try to appease here (FSF? RMS?). The best person to officially answer would of course be the project head, Jim Hall. Feel free to email him directly (jhall@freedos). AFAIK, FreeDOS "BASE" is ideally meant to be totally free/libre (four freedoms) if at all possible. Even a lot of other stuff (esp. iBiblio mirror) is heavily preferred to be similarly licensed, due to Jim's preferences. He once was supposedly a big Emacs supporter, but I don't know if he's kept up in recent years. (He also recently graduated with an MBA or whatever, but I can never remember the details. This actually should mean that he has "more" free time, but don't quote me! I'm still waiting on his reply to a few minor things.) > -- > http://rrt.sc3d.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
