On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Luchezar Georgiev wrote: > There is a very good and easy interactive license selector at > http://pgl.yoyo.org/lqr/ but I'd still prefer if we compose one of our > own. More opinions, please!
The FreeDOS kernel is released under the GPL and will remain so. Getting the agreement of all copyright holders (Pat Villani, John Price, ror4, James Tabor, Tom, Lucho, Martin, many others) to change it is an impossible task. It all rolls down to someone who wants to squeeze one more K out of the kernel.sys binary. So what, if the packer happens to be incompatible then it just is. As I see it, Pat contributed the kernel to the FreeDOS community (not to be underestimated, as I doubt this project would be anywhere without it); the license that he saw fit to do that was the GPL. With the GPL come certain freedoms at a cost of certain restrictions. If some restriction means not being able to compress it 1K further from 43K to 42K (and redistribute the result) then SO BE IT. Write your own exepacker if you don't like it! Bart ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
