I'm sure within a month or two's time,he will have completed the current version and move on to the next version,henceforth releasing the "Older" so to speak,source code.And if not,it's not like the users can't just download it and install/utilize it themselves.
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > >> On 9/7/2015 6:37 PM, Michael Brutman wrote: > >> > >> ... > >> I think that whether it is open source or not it is still a great > solution > >> for DOS networking. If the lack of source code prevents you from using > mTCP > >> I regret that and I encourage you to question your assumption that > without > >> source code it is not "clean" or "good" enough for you. > >> ... > > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Mercury Thirteen > > <mercury0x0...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Well, Richard Stallman would throw a FIT. > >> > >> However... those of us not quite so zealous see nothing wrong with it. > >> Source code is nice, but the lack thereof doesn't spell the end of the > >> world. > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Sadly, it would mean that specific version of mTCP could not be included > in FD. > > > That is correct. As Micheal has pointed out in his email, "The source > for the 2013-05-23 version is available and always will be." So that's > good. mTCP is released under the GNU GPL. And if Micheal is the sole > contributor to the source code, my understanding is he can change the > license for future releases to make it "closed source." #ianal > > But if the newew 2015-07-05 version is not free/open source software, > then we cannot include it in FreeDOS. We will only be able to include > the 2013-05-23 version. FreeDOS needs to be free/open source software > software, or there is no point in a "Free" DOS. > > I hope Michael releases mTCP under a free license again. It sounds > like that is his goal, and I encourage that. Thanks! > > > jh > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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