Re: [Freedos-user] CP/M "and derivatives" legal status clarified

2022-07-18 Thread Liam Proven
On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 at 23:12, Jim Hall wrote: > > I think it's great that DRDOS updated their statement on CP/M. Agreed. > I would > have preferred he used a recognized open source license like MIT or > GNU GPL or another license, rather than make his own statement here, > but this is definitely

Re: [Freedos-user] CP/M "and derivatives" legal status clarified

2022-07-18 Thread Liam Proven
On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 at 19:35, Travis Siegel wrote: > For some reason, I'd thought DRDOS has been free for quite some time. No. To add to what others have said about licences and things: Lineo published the source code of DR DOS 7.01. (And AFAIK only the kernel and a few core components such as

Re: [Freedos-user] CP/M "and derivatives" legal status clarified

2022-07-18 Thread tom ehlert
> On the assumption that DR-DOS is included among the CP/M derivatives, > which would agree with the fact that DRDOS, Inc. did sell DR-DOS 7.xx > (and the shortlived DR-DOS 8.xx) and so had the rights to those, this > means that EDR-DOS is now free! that's a rather far fetched assumption. DR-

Re: [Freedos-user] CP/M "and derivatives" legal status clarified

2022-07-18 Thread Travis Siegel
On 7/17/2022 5:10 PM, Jim Hall wrote: Questions arise when you consider if you can re-use the CP/M source code in another project that uses a recognized open source license - or if you want to re-use code from another project (under an open source license) to improve CP/M. Of course, these ques

Re: [Freedos-user] CP/M "and derivatives" legal status clarified

2022-07-18 Thread Travis Siegel
On 7/17/2022 4:44 PM, C. Masloch wrote: For some reason, I'd thought DRDOS has been free for quite some time. I remember when opendos was released as opensource, (I have a copy of it around here somewhere), but I thought DRDOS was released as freeware sometime after that, though I don't reme