On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 7:44 PM, John R. Sowden <jsow...@americansentry.net> wrote: > Excuse me for butting in ... but, > > I understand the the FreeDOS package should be pure open source with no > caveats. I also see that there are many programs out there that are > 'available for use by the general public', but have varying license tweaks > that make them not pure open source. Some of these programs have been in > use long before we got picky about the term 'open source'. Ubuntu seems to > have solved this by treating them separately, not part of the install. > Couldn't the same be done here? If any author or troll (strike that - > license holder) complains, their program could be removed from the separate > .ZIP. > > Possibility?
Ubuntu draws a distinction between "free" and "non-free" software, and the distinction I know is whether source is available. The non-free stuff tends to be things like drivers. For instance, AMD/ATI and Nvidia both offer Linux drivers for their video cards, but do *not* provide driver source. You use them if you have special needs the generic open source video drivers bundled with Ubuntu don't handle. (You are likely a gamer if you have needs like that.) I have an older AMD/ATI card in my dual boot desktop. It has a current ATI driver on the Windows side, but uses the generic Linux drivers under Ubuntu. (On an older machine, I did once resort to ndiswrapper, a *nix utility that let me use Windows drivers in Linux, to get full support for the hardware on the machine Linux was multi-booting on.) > John > Still a Wordstar/FoxPro 2.6 User ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
