On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 9:13 AM Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote: > > > > 3. Development/TPPATCH > wiki comment>>> no source code, no license text > > http://www.ipnet6.org/tppatch.html > > the comments make it pretty clear that the author wants to give this > away for free; just without gnuish legalese. I consider this free, no > strings attached.
As Eric pointed out, that's not the author's website. The TPPATCH author is Andreas Bauer. The ipnet6 website's owner is Dean (Christian) Strik. So we can't go by the website's notes, we have to use the documentation in the TPPATCH zip file. > > 4. Utilities/4DOS > wiki comment>>> 4DOS uses modified license that does not qualify as > > open source by Open Source Initiative or Free Software Foundation > > standards. The license does not permit use on non-DOS systems. > > [I've also talked about this one elsewhere, including the FreeDOS > > Blog, that we should replace 4DOS with something else. I was the one > > who worked with JP on the license when he open-sourced 4DOS, and I > > gave him bad advice. I didn't have enough experience then, and I > > thought his suggested change to the license was still okay. It's not. > > So I feel really bad about this, but it's "non-free."] > this reminds me of the end of "Brügge sehen und sterben" where the bad > guy notices that his own rules also apply to himself - before shooting > himself to dead. > > you should also adjust the wiki where it states that FreeDOS is better > then MSDOS because of ... 4DOS ... Yes, I would make sure to update the FreeDOS wiki (to remove the mentions of 4DOS) when we release FreeDOS 1.3. > > 7. Utilities/uptime > wiki comment>>> UPTIME.DOC says "Free & Open DOS Utility" but later has > > conditions that appear to be incompatible with free software or open > > source software, including "3. You must obtain the permission of the > > author(s) before distributing this software or derived works > > (including combining it with commercial systems) commercially or > > depart in any way from the above conditions." Since we have a > > duplicate with Chamorro's uptimec, which uses a different license, > > let's omit this one. > > one thing *any* OS or distribution should do is make choices so users > don't have to. providing two solutions for the same problem is simply > bloat. Yup, removing this 'uptime' (in favor of keeping Chamorro's 'uptime') is the plan. Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
