Hi again, On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM Rugxulo via Freedos-devel > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > For license purists, I have not checked if the Brexx 2.1.8 sources on > > Github are really "GPL" or not nowadays. I also haven't emailed him in > > recent years. Honestly, I'm pessimistic. But it does function > > reasonably well, at least, for my simple REXX programs. > > > > If you mean Brexx 2.1.8 at SourceForge (not GitHub) then it appears to > be. The COPYING file is the GNU GPL v2: > https://sourceforge.net/projects/brexx/
Unfortunately, that says brought to you by "markhobley", not the original author and copyright holder (Bill Vlachoudis). So unofficial and not reliable, IMHO. Fine, I'll check what Github says, but I personally haven't diff-ed the old 2.1.0 (from 2003) to the latest on Github. * https://github.com/vlachoudis/brexx While there are no binary releases, it seems the latest is 2.1.10 (after 2.1.8 ??). It *does* say "GPL-2.0 license", but ... I have no idea if that applies to older versions or if I can somehow combine (2003's) 2.1.0 with latest code to get a working DOS .EXE. "Updated README to match with license 5 years ago" So maybe something changed, but I swear he always insisted on "non-commercial only" (which is not really GPL). Not complaining, it's his call, I'd have to email him directly to ask (if it mattered, which it doesn't, I have no commercial plans). In theory, I'd love for us to mirror his stuff (and my 8086 TC++ 1.01 diffs) to iBiblio.org for us. Brexx (and REXX) are very cool, and I still sometimes use them. Fine, I'll cc him and see what he says. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
