On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 5:20 PM <userbeit...@abwesend.de> wrote: > On Mar 27 2020 23:02, Jim Hall wrote: > > Yes, the 4DOS license was my mistake and I feel really bad about it. > > > Don't. IMO it's an okay license. And I am forever greatful for it, > otherwise we might have never gotten the 4DOS sources like we did. > > > My astonishment is that something exclusively free to FreeDOS being > excluded from FreeDOS due to exactly this exclusiveness. In plain words: > 4DOS is intended for use with FreeDOS, free of charge, to the users of > FreeDOS. Excluding it from a FreeDOS distribution is, in my eyes, a > mistake. It's not like this should ever be a default selection, but it > should remain an option in the installer. An optional package to include > or exclude, depending on the users choice. > [..]
I didn't want to put FreeDOS in the position of having a "non-free" package group like some Linux distributions. That's going to make things really confusing, and possibly make things harder. As I said, I think 4DOS can fix it by removing term 2 from the license (and possibly term 3) since that's what makes the 4DOS license "not open source." Rex would need to agree to it, since both terms have Rex's name on them. ; Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy ; of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal ; in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights ; to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell ; copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is ; furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: ; ; (1) The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all ; copies or substantial portions of the Software. ; ; (2) The Software, or any portion of it, may not be compiled for use on any ; operating system OTHER than FreeDOS without written permission from Rex Conn ; <rc...@jpsoft.com> ; ; (3) The Software, or any portion of it, may not be used in any commercial ; product without written permission from Rex Conn <rc...@jpsoft.com> ; ; (4) THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR ; IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, ; FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ; AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER ; LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, ; OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE ; SOFTWARE.
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