Wouldn't it have been smarter to request a relicense to LGPL for FreeDOS-32?
That would fix his problems
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Christian Masloch wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, the last commit in the SVN for the project was in
> > 2007, so it's either abandoned, in hiatus, or goin
Hi,
I have followed many, many discussions about iteractions of GPL, and I
have read the GPL inumerous times...
GPL is very clear that *derived* work has to be GPL. There is no
restriction in any way for *using with*
Linking with GPL software, or copying a small piece of GPL code is
restricte
> I have simply stated our position.
I thought you wanted to discuss it since you even opened up a new thread
for it.
Regards,
Christian
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On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Christian Masloch wrote:
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> I wasn't aware Richard Stallman is a DOS internals expert. Please don't
> argue by showing me people which don't believe in something, rather, stay
> with actual facts about the kernel and device driver interface or the GPL.
> With respects to DOS-C, if loading non GPL drivers really did violate
> GPL, then it would have never been released under GPL.
The GPL's text is huge and complicated, if you weren't aware of a
violation you might have released program X under GPL though it actually
violated the license someh
Pat is correct.
A device driver is no different than any other executable, it just normally
gets loaded via CONFIG.SYS instead of AUTOEXEC.BAT or at the command line. If
a GPL OS only allowed GPL applications to run on it, it would be useless. In
the DOS world, almost no programs are GPL, esp
With respects to DOS-C, if loading non GPL drivers really did violate
GPL, then it would have never been released under GPL. The comparison
of drivers to OSLib is an apples and oranges comparison. A DOS
loadable device driver is simply an executable that is loaded into
memory that follows a certa
> As far as I can tell, the last commit in the SVN for the project was in
> 2007, so it's either abandoned, in hiatus, or going so slowly that no
> commits have been pushed through in the last two years.
I contacted Salvo a year or so ago and he said there's still work on a new
version which wil
