darwinx, djgpp

[H. Peter Anvin]

Hi all,

Any forward movement on getting darwinx into Fedora proper?

The one other toolchain I personally would find interesting would be 
DJGPP, the extended DOS tools:

ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/

-hpa

[Erik van Pienbroek]

H. Peter Anvin schreef op wo 13-02-2013 om 20:54 [-0800]:
> Hi all,
>
> Any forward movement on getting darwinx into Fedora proper?
>
> The one other toolchain I personally would find interesting would be 
> DJGPP, the extended DOS tools:
>
> ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/
>
> -hpa

Hi hpa,

Unfortunately it won't be possible to add the darwinx toolchain to the
official Fedora repositories. The reason behind this is licensing. The
Mac OS X SDK which is created by Apple contains many headers which are
licensed under the APSL 1.x license. These licenses are on the list of
forbidden licenses for Fedora:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Bad_Licenses

So unless Apple updates the license of all pieces of the SDK to a more
liberal one (which I consider very unlikely) then darwinx in the
official Fedora repositories will be a no-go.

I don't have any personal interest in introducing/maintaining djgpp in
Fedora, but of course everybody else is free to propose and maintain
packages for djgpp in Fedora.

Regards,

Erik van Pienbroek

[Kevin Kofler]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The one other toolchain I personally would find interesting would be
> DJGPP, the extended DOS tools:
>
> ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/

Wow, that thing is still alive?!

What would one use this for? FreeDOS? Is anybody (other than OEMs trying to 
fulfill some silly contractual obligation to ship an operating system with 
their computers) actually using that? ;-)

Kevin Kofler