Hi, On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Micheal Muniko <michealmun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 1. The files are free. You can use it in any project.
Ugh. I don't mean to be rude here, I really don't. And I don't mean to be overly pedantic. But you are indeed emailing us on a "Free"DOS mailing list (hosted by "Source"Forge). I don't think "free" means what you think it means. Do you mean "freeware"? Or just "freeware with sources"? Keep in mind that "free software" usually means FSF (especially GPL, but not always), and "open source" usually means OSI (e.g. OpenWatcom, aka Sybase v1, which absurdly is not "free software"!). https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html http://opensource.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software#Definition " Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose. Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish. Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor. Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits. " I've honestly not looked lately, but I'm pretty sure that SourceForge is fairly strict about only hosting FSF- or OSI-styled stuff (well, and public domain too these days, apparently). I'm just saying, if you don't license your software appropriately (and avoid linking or including anything non-free), then many people won't mirror or even use it. That, to me, is annoying, not being able to find or (publicly) use software because of some (imaginary, non-technical) problem. > 2. I just did not feel the need to switch to another extender. DOS4GW > worked fine for me. I did experiment with PMODE/W while developing SN, > and I used it for SNG2MIDI but that's pretty much it. Great. But again, some (important!) people heavily frown on even so-called "non-free" software that includes full sources! So something that is a proprietary binary (with no sources at all) is even worse. Don't rely on it if you don't have to. I'm just giving some friendly advice. Most people have already heard some of this before. It shouldn't be too painful to hear this. No, you don't have to listen, but life is just so much harder when people can't cooperate. It's best to avoid any obstacles and not go against the (overwhelmingly huge) tide if you don't have to. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
