Hi, On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Bertho Grandpied <y31415926...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > > What is the legal status of 4DOS in relation to FreeDOS ? There's a fully > baked > product, could it become /the/ main FD shell ?
Unlikely to become the main shell (though that's not my decision anyways). I'm honestly not sure how free/libre it is. IIRC, the original license (when sources were released) was quite contradictory, so I'm not sure if "commercial use" is allowed, which is indeed a big restriction that OSI and FSF rally against. (Not to mention requiring non-free tools. I don't think the partial patch to use OpenWatcom was ever very successful, but I never tried, and certainly Lucho only used old official MS tools.) I don't know the details, I'm no lawyer. It's unlikely to ever change. Feel free to contact the copyright holder (Rex Conn? JPsoft?) for clarification, but then again, they may not respond (in any useful manner), so don't get your hopes up. http://jpsoft.com/company/contact-jp-software.html Sorry to be so pessimistic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
