Hi Bret,
> [..]
>> I see the point with item 5. However, the mention of a "..directly
>> from a web site that charges a 'registration fee'.." seems (to me) to
>> be specific to sites that charge a mandatory fee to access files.
>
> That is correct. Voluntary donations to a website owner are fine
Hi Rob,
I would start a bit more at the meta level and research how kernels
work. There are also many sites dealing with OS development (osdev is
useful search term). It is quite instructive to see the first steps
that happen after the machine boots (the boot loader mainly). Once
you've really und
Is there a FreeDOS walk thru of the source code that you would consider
helpful to the uninitiated? I want to start down the road to more bare
metal coding and would love to be able to help with FreeDOS in the far
future but I'm not sure where to begin. I do know how to program in C and
have just
This Bret, the author of USBDOS (and a few other programs also. I've added a
few comments below to Jim's comments, but basically Jim is right on target.
People have made comments about how this is a non-standard license and would
like to see me incorporate a widely-published one (and there are
Hi,
I think the question is rather academic. The Patreon membership is
voluntary. Nothing prevents a user from downloading and using the
program for free and under conditions described by the program's
author. This is different to, let's say, a website that requires a
paid membership to get access
Someone else asked me about the USBDOS license. This person
highlighted a note in the USBDOS license that suggested "if your
website collects money, then you can't distribute USBDOS" - and the
person asked about the Patreon link on the www.freedos.org website.
So I thought I'd share my reply here,
A user emailed me to ask about the license for JEMM. We list this as
"Artistic License" on the website, but JEMM includes a few public
domain components.
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.3/pkg-html/jemm.html
I wanted to share my reply to this person on the em
