Hi again, Jim, On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 7:10 PM Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > And there are these programs that I think should not be included in > FreeDOS 1.3, and I marked those in red. I know we've included some of > these in previous releases, but I don't think the licenses are really > that free or open. > > 1. Archivers/LHa for unix > wiki comment>> License is unclear, but appears incompatible with free > software or open source. For example, license.txt includes additional > terms on commercial use. "7b. If the recipient of commercial use deems > inappropriate as a program user, you must not distribute."
AFAIK, that is Doug Kaufman's DJGPP build, and he got the sources from Debian. Granted, even they allow some non-free stuff, and FSF doesn't agree with DFSG on what is and isn't acceptable, so it depends on whom you're trying to please (if either). * http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/ > 4. Utilities/4DOS > So I feel really bad about this, but it's "non-free." Ask Rex Conn to relicense it. If he doesn't, then it's his decision (and "blame", loosely speaking), not yours. It makes no sense to feel bad about what you can't control, especially something so trivial (in the grand scheme of things). But I always prefer FreeCOM anyways, for simplicity. I'm glad Bart and Tom have done recent work on it, it's fairly important to us, obviously. > 1. Utilities/SHSUFDRV > License is unclear. Documentation says "Copyright 2005 Jason Hood. > Freeware." But no explicit license in documentation. No mention of > redistribution or other license in source code. Without license, > "Freeware" is not enough to indicate that the software can be > included. Regarding SHSURDRV (RAM driver), I emailed him years ago, and (IIRC) he told me "Zlib license". But I was only concerned with that one piece, so I'm not sure if he meant the whole group of utils. Email him for clarification. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
