Hi, It is not easy to define the words 'free' and 'open'. How free? How open? To what extent? I don't know if my program developed in a propriatory OS be defined as 'impure', but all softwares finally make use of the BIOS that is also not 'free' to my understanding.
IMHO, without propriatory softwares being used as a develop platform years ago, free softwares may not exist today. As a user, I want all softwares offered by FreeDOS free of charge, open source, changeable according to my need and no cost entailed from recreating a program. As a programmer, I want my program source be respected. My identity and the orginal source are kept intact. People change my program should deliver my original source files as well. In the derived version, with statments of where the original copy received and the author identity must be maintained, and why and how the change is necessary. Actually I never read completely the GNU GPL version 2, and my English ability does not help me to understand either. Should FreeDOS draft a license of its own, I hope my wishes can be considered. regards, BAHCL _________________________________________________________ 必殺技、飲歌、小星星... 浪漫鈴聲 情心連繫 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=22281/*http://ringtone.yahoo.com.hk/ ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
