On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, solarflow99 wrote:

> Hi, I'm currently trying to create a dosemu RPM package for Fedora.   One
> problem seems to be with including a binary freedos image, does anyone know
> if compilation from linux is even possible, or with a free compiler?  Here
> is the issue:
>
>
> --- Comment #49 from Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak <lkund...@v3.sk>>  2009-03-23
> 08:38:27 EDT ---
> Bad news :(
>
> Seems like FreeDOS can be built with Watcom C and Borland C Compiler only,
> both
> of which are non-free. Building with dev86's bcc is most likely not possible
> now.
>
> Do you think DOSEmu package would actually be usable without the FreeDOS
> image
> shipped?
>
> I'm wondering if you are in touch with upstream of either FreeDOS, or DOSEmu
> so
> that you could ask whether anyone's willing to help switching to free build
> framework (dev86) and whether there are any known technical difficulties
> with
> it?
>
> See the thread here:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2009-March/thread.html#00053
>

How open-source is OpenWatcom?

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