Re: [Freedos-devel] free-non-gnu-distros.en.html

2017-01-23 Thread Jim Hall
Interesting development: Richard Stallman emailed me last night to suggest I work with the GNU licensing folks on this topic. So I'll follow up with them off list and report back on where things go. On Jan 22, 2017 8:34 PM, "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > Excerpt from Rugxulo: > > > So that's bare m

Re: [Freedos-devel] free-non-gnu-distros.en.html

2017-01-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Rugxulo: > So that's bare minimum (not counting drivers / extensions like XMS or > DPMI or mouse or ...). > But, even then, FSF hates mentioning or linking to proprietary > software, yet FreeDOS is meant to be binary compatible with as much > legacy software as possible. So it's the

Re: [Freedos-devel] free-non-gnu-distros.en.html

2017-01-22 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 6:18 PM, David Hedlund wrote: > > I would love to have your operating systems listed in > https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-non-gnu-distros.en.html One GNU Emacs guy (Reuben Thomas) asked back in 2014, but nothing ever came from it. https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/m

Re: [Freedos-devel] free-non-gnu-distros.en.html

2017-01-21 Thread Jim Hall
On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 6:18 PM, David Hedlund wrote: > I would love to have your operating systems listed in > https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-non-gnu-distros.en.html, however the Free > Software Foundation "staff said that those who want their distros listed > have to request it. Being listed i

[Freedos-devel] free-non-gnu-distros.en.html

2017-01-21 Thread David Hedlund
I would love to have your operating systems listed in https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-non-gnu-distros.en.html, however the Free Software Foundation "staff said that those who want their distros listed have to request it. Being listed involves a commitment to remove any nonfree software present