On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:44 PM, <ibid...@lavabit.com> wrote: ... > In the discussion I refer to, relicensing was mentioned. I am curious who > should be contacted for such requests, or if relicensing would be allowed, > etc. > The kernel source says "Portions copyright Patrick J. Villani." > Would that mean that Pat should be contacted? ...
It would be very difficult; at minimal one would have to find all the people listed in contrib.txt (within the docs directory in the kernel source) and each of them would have to agree or the corresponding contribution determined and replaced. Pat of course would be the starting point as the kernel as a whole is derived from his work; in recent years Bart and Tom have contributed the most. Assuming this was achievable, it would only get you a version of the kernel relicensed; the majority of FreeDOS [the associated shell & utilities] would still be GPL licensed. Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
