On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 8:18 PM Steve Nickolas <usots...@buric.co> wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Nov 2018, Jim Hall wrote: > > > 1. Emulators/MEKA > > wiki comment>> License is unclear. The website says "MEKA is a free > > software distributed under a BSD-like license, allowing you to browse > > and reuse sources and data with no restrictions." The sources.txt file > > includes a license that is unclear, but has these five terms: 1. "This > > source code comes free, without any warantee given." 2. You must > > publish source code if you publish the binary. 3. "Reuse of source > > code are authorized for any purpose." 4. Re-use of embedded data in > > other projects is not allowed. 5. Derivative projects is allowed but > > discouraged. The license appears incompatible with free software or > > open source software, but not sure. > > I thought MEKA was GPL. :o Anyway, I'm not personally keen on the idea of > including any sort of emulator in an OS distribution, especially not one > that specifically exists to run "romz" (and I say this as the author of a > few Apple and Commodore emulators, some of which run on DOS). > > > [I'm leaning to "no" on this one] > > ...yeah, no. Don't include MEKA.
We haven't talked about this yet, but there's also the question of what software do we install when you do a "Full" install? Maybe these emulators wouldn't be installed as part of a "Full" install but you could choose to install them via FDIMPLES later. I'm actually okay to include MEKA. Reviewing it further, the "embedded data" that they forbid to include in other projects seems to be items like sprites and firmware, or something like that. (I didn't look very deep into this, but that's the impression I got when I looked back at it.) Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
