On Fri, 3 May 2024, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote:
On Fri, May 3, 2024, 10:53 PM Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel <
freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
So I've had some thoughts regarding the MS-DOS 4 source drop, regarding
[...]
(The obvious question:
Why not use what FreeDOS already has? A: Because I'd like to have the
entirety of the project under a single license - that being the X license
Microsoft and IBM are already using.)
FYI: the license Microsoft has used for the official MS-DOS source code
releases is the MIT License. The FSF people call this the Expat license.
Huh - thought they called it the "X11 license" (but then, that was 20 or
25 years ago). They have used it themselves.
The FSF people also say the Expat/MIT license is compatible with the GNU
GPL. You can copy code from an Expat licensed project and paste it into a
GNU GPL'd project.
And thus MS-DOS 4 can theoretically (not really in practice) benefit
FreeDOS.
-uso.
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