Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3 list of packages

2018-11-11 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, François Revol wrote: Nice to see some retro people interested in legal issues :-) Which reminds me... The other day I was looking for assistance in cleanrooming some pieces of MS-DOS 2.11 and 3.x so that I had an option for systems where FreeDOS might be less than idea

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3 list of packages

2018-11-11 Thread François Revol
Hi, Le 07/11/2018 à 16:01, Rugxulo a écrit : > Hi, Jim, > > On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 6:50 PM Jim Hall wrote: >> >> I have been working to create a list of packages for FreeDOS 1.3. >> >> I mentioned back in June (as part of a discussion thread about "Removing >> non-free packages") >> that I woul

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3 list of packages

2018-11-11 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Jim, >> (Meh, non-commercial isn't great, but alas, without further >> clarification, that's probably a no-go for us.) > > Yup, requiring that the program *cannot* be sold (non-commercial only) > is a no-go. But for games, I think it's easy to swap out whatever we > want, these programs are no

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3 list of packages

2018-11-11 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Jim, >> doslfn ... not sure if it's free/libre, but it's widely used. Of >> course, there are other alternatives, too, of varying quality (e.g. >> StarLFN). At least VFAT/LFN is finally unpatented nowadays (I think?). >> Again, you may have to contact the (inactive) maintainer for >> clarificat