On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 6:06 PM Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote:
> [..] > I remember there was a DR-DOS 8 that used GPL parts from FreeDOS, but that > had to be withdrawn from the market due to legal challenges, using > open-source GPL parts in a closed-source system. > > Yes, I was one of the folks who contacted them about it at the time. I posted a newsitem to the FreeDOS website at the time, to document my interaction with them. http://www.freedos.org/history/press/2005-drdos.txt I didn't mind that they included FreeDOS programs in DR-DOS. That's fine. But I objected that they did so without providing the source code. They did not follow the GNU GPL; they either had to provide the source code for the GNU GPL'd programs, or they had to provide a written offer to do so. That's defined in section 3 of the GNU GPL version 2. Jim
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