Hi! In particular: Hi Rugxulo, hi Jim, hi Bret, hi Jerome ;-)
>> CRYNWR - Unknown License, Dropped. > > Uh ... "most" of it should be (intentionally) GPL, but there are still > some pieces (e.g. RTSPKT.COM) that aren't. Would be good to have! >> MPXPLAY - Unknown License, Dropped. > > SF.net lists it as "Other License", which presumably means some kind > of generic "open source". (Maybe it slipped through the cracks, who > knows, but I just assume everybody knew what they were doing.) Good question. >> UTIL: >> >> 4DOS - Listed as Free, No Sources. Kept for now, may get Dropped? > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/4dos/ > > 4dos800.zip's LICENSE.TXT seems to remind me of (derivative of) BSD 4-clause. Thanks :-) > http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=4dos > > "[modified MIT License that does not qualify as open source by OSI; > non-commercial]" Good enough for me, we are not the A Whole GNU DOS distro. >> DOSLFN - Listed as GPL, No License Messages, Keep? > > Debatable. Not honestly sure, which probably means we should be highly > pessimistic. > > http://adoxa.altervista.org/doslfn/index.html If you really care, fix the license message? I assume it simply did come with but did not display the license? >> GCDROM - Listed as GPL, No Sources, Based on XCDROM, Removed. > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/cdrom/gcdrom/ Thanks! >> MEMTEST - Listed as Freeware, Unknown License, No Sources, Dropped. > > http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/specials/memteste.zip > > But that only contains sources for "A loader for www.Memtest86.com images". > Not sure what other pieces are needed (nor exactly which ones or how > to find them). This thing is ancient. I probably just assembled the loader to work with some version of MEMTEST that I had around as a binary. As you remember, MEMTEST is originally designed to be loaded by any boot menu which can load a Linux kernel and boot menus do not ship with Linux kernels either. As far as I remember, you simply had to do a binary concatenation of the MEMTEST loader and the binary, so you can ship them separately to be nice to the licenses. Note that I do vaguely remember somebody mailing me years ago that my loader does no longer support the newer versions of MEMTEST anyway. Which did not have trivial reasons. Maybe an expert like Bret wants to check? >> UIDE - Free for non-commercial, Removed. > > Uh, no. AFAIK, none of his variations were ever "non-commercial only" > (which would neither be "open source" [OSI] nor "Free" [FSF]). > > " > XMGR, RDISK, and UIDE are offered at no cost, "as is", "use at your own > risk", and with NO warranties, not even the implied warranty of FITNESS > for any particular purpose nor of MERCHANTABILITY! > " > > However, AFAIK, Jim (still) seems to think it would be better > (overall) if we removed these. I don't personally know of any concrete > legal reason to do so... I would like to interpret that as "IF there would be drivers for CD/DVD and UDMA with sufficient quality, THEN we would prefer to use those instead of UIDE." However, there are none, so I would really prefer to keep it! I would also prefer to keep RDISK, as it is one of the smaller and better RAMDISK drivers. As Jack had discussed possible (but very unlikely) contamination of XMGR by him looking at Microsoft HIMEM sources, I agree that we can drop XMGR. Note that he glanced at the sources AFTER his last update to XMGR, so only future XMGR updates are actually at risk here. Jim, are you okay with my interpretation of the current position? I think it summarizes both off- as well as on-list conclusions. , only some irrational rants and behavior from > Jack himself. > >> UMBPCI - Listed as free, No sources, Dropped. Background are requirements from hardware vendors that he must not widely distribute sources which do stuff based on "private" hardware specs, I believe? UMBPCI is kind of cool but it would be okay to do what Linux does with Microsoft fonts: Offer some package which helps the user to download them from the vendor, after showing the appropriate licensing dialogue. Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
