On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, tom ehlert wrote: > Here comes the fun part:
Well, even more fun: If HIMEM(64) is under GPL, you may not do it either. You must release the executable under a different license; which, however, can be shipped in the same archive. Anyway, how about this: There is already mentioned that only the Copyright owner may inflict problems for a distributor; hence, I would raise an agreement among FreeDOS developers that goes into the Manifesto that: Exepackers, regardless if Open- or Closed- source, if GPL by themselves or not, are not considered as to "modify" a Program in the sense of GPL, because it does not change the program. It merely constitutes a method of delivery, like other archivers. Every contributor to the _FreeDOS_ project repository shall agree to this, too. Of course, everybody is allowed to branch his/her own package incl. his/her contributions that inflicts the fully GPL, as haircutting as laid out by this thread. Maybe this suggestion is not clean, but I personally see no conflict with GPL and an exepacker, but I, too, will not personally maintain an exepack'ed product, because everybody is free to pack it him/herself and, if required, distribute to further people. Of course, I'm not sure, if such amendment to the license can be made for running projects; maybe we should simply try. Please, Jim take up this thread and end it -- any way you seem fit. Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser ------------------------------------------------------- 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
