Hi, Stas, On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 5:56 PM Stas Sergeev <[email protected]> wrote: > > As you probably know, once upon a time (like > 20 years ago) there were the command.com sources > from Centroid Corp under GPL. AFAIK they were > removed from the freedos servers because of the > licence uncertaincy.
I'm not aware of any uncertainty. There was a p.d. version and a (slightly bugfixed?) GPLv2 version, AFAIK. It was quite interesting but (as mentioned) lacked a few features. So I normally stuck with vanilla FreeCOM (0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap) since forever, which works very well (and indeed has had some work done on it lately, thanks to Tom and Bart). Here's the old versions already on iBiblio (dated 2002, built by DJGPP): * http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/command/contrib/centroidcnc/ > and finally decided to see if I can do something > about its licensing. So I just mailed to Centroids, > and, quite suprisingly, the outcome was very positive: > https://github.com/stsp/comcom32/issues/12 > Here you can see the reply from Centroid official, > confirming the possibility of distributing this command.com > source under GPLv3+. Always good to get confirmation. > So just wanted to let you know about this. > I believe it is now possible for freedos to re-upload > it to their servers, where it once initially was. I was not personally involved back then, but nowadays I can easily upload (or reupload) to iBiblio for us anything (free/libre) related to that, if you wish. But I'm not directly aware of the various versions and their differences. Any preference or request? _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
