On Tuesday, 03 May 2016 at 21:23, Tom Callaway wrote:
On 05/03/2016 03:14 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
Does this mean that, if we strip FreeDOS out of dosemu / dosemu2, we can ship it and even point to a website with FreeDOS binaries?
AIUI the only problem with FreeDOS is that no one knows how to compile it with a free software toolchain. As far as I know, the binary is pretty clearly redistributable. (Hmm. Could FreeDOS ship as a firmware blob? That seems dubious to me.)
Are the FreeDOS sources under a Fedora-acceptable license?
A cursory look at their website suggests they're licensed under the GPL. I haven't checked which version, exactly.
They say their reference C compiler is the Open Watcom C, which seems to be distributed under this license: ftp://ftp.openwatcom.org/pub/license.txt . The license seems complicated and probably non-free in Fedora terms.
Regards, Dominik