Hi,
15.03.2019 4:30, Rugxulo пишет:
Hi, Stas, On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 5:56 PM Stas Sergeev
<st...@yandex.ru> wrote:
As you probably know, once upon a time (like 20 years ago) there were
the command.com sources from Centroid Corp under GPL. AFAIK they were
removed from the freedos servers because of the licence uncertaincy.
I'm not aware of any uncertainty. There was a p.d. version and a
(slightly bugfixed?) GPLv2 version, AFAIK. It was quite interesting
but (as mentioned) lacked a few features. So I normally stuck with
vanilla FreeCOM (0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap) since forever, which works very
well (and indeed has had some work done on it lately, thanks to Tom
and Bart). Here's the old versions already on iBiblio (dated 2002,
built by DJGPP): *
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/command/contrib/centroidcnc/
Wow! This is what I was googling for days, and all
that time it was here!
The uncertainty came from this thread:
https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos-32/mailman/message/3995213/
https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos-32/mailman/message/3995210/
https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos-32/mailman/message/3995212/
Obviously people were not aware of v2 either.
Lets add freedos-32-dev to CC.
and finally decided to see if I can do something about its licensing.
So I just mailed to Centroids, and, quite suprisingly, the outcome
was very positive: https://github.com/stsp/comcom32/issues/12 Here
you can see the reply from Centroid official, confirming the
possibility of distributing this command.com source under GPLv3+.
Always good to get confirmation.
But v2 seems to have it already, so...
Thanks for the pointers.
Maybe you should put the README outside of an
archive to allow search engines to locate it.
So just wanted to let you know about this. I believe it is now
possible for freedos to re-upload it to their servers, where it once
initially was.
I was not personally involved back then, but nowadays I can easily
upload (or reupload) to iBiblio for us anything (free/libre) related
to that, if you wish. But I'm not directly aware of the various
versions and their differences. Any preference or request?
I wasn't aware of v2 either. I'll review it & merge.
However, as you already have that uploaded, I am
not sure if you need anything else. comcom32 project
evolves, so putting it into an archive probably doesn't
help much, as it will change the next day or so.
So let me just point out that I upload the binaries here:
https://github.com/stsp/comcom32/blob/master/tmp/comcom32.exe
Maybe you will be interested in uploading it as v3 one day,
or something like that. Its also available via Ubuntu PPA.
Thanks!
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