>>>>> Jim Hall <[email protected]> writes:
[…]
>> I wonder if someone could write such a short note on FreeDOS? (In
>> either English or Russian. Or in Esperanto, but that'd force me to
>> use a dictionary.)
> Well, you can feel free to borrow text from our web page:
> FreeDOS is a free DOS-compatible operating system that can be used to
> play games, run legacy software, or support embedded systems.
> FreeDOS is basically like the old MS-DOS, but better! For example,
> unlike MS-DOS, FreeDOS lets you access FAT32 file systems and use
> large disk support (LBA).
I'll happily re-use this as the basis for a version of such a
note (though I'd like to expand it a bit, and perhaps replace
“like the old MS-DOS” with “like the older PC DOS systems”,
avoiding an arguably unnecessary reference to non-free
software), but I'd like to distribute the result under a free
license (such as, e. g., CC BY-SA), so that our flyers will by
themselves be free works.
This makes me ask: am I permitted to do so? (The GNU project is
notable for their use of licenses like CC BY-ND, which disallow
the creation of derivative works, while we, obviously, need our
flyers in Russian, which, indeed, means that we have to create
derivative works, or to avoid any use of the material from their
Web pages whatsoever.)
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