Hi, On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > > I helped JP Software with the source code release to 4DOS, and the > license was my greatest mistake in open source software. > > In retrospect, I should have stuck to my original suggestion to use the GNU > GPL.
You can always ask upstream to relicense. It's happened before (for other projects): http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/freeing_an_old_game_moria/ BTW, I like the features 4DOS but never heavily used it. Honestly, I prefer vanilla shell features (COMMAND.COM) that are (pseudo-)"portable", supplementing that with various utils as needed (e.g. sed). Besides Lucho, there haven't been any noticeable contributors to 4DOS anyways, mainly due to heavy reliance on non-Free tools. Very hard but (in theory) not impossible to fix (and sadly an all-too-common problem for old legacy DOS software). Seriously, DOS developers just never cared enough to fix things like that, sadly. We really need to encourage Free tools for future work. Honestly, we don't need 4DOS, we have FreeCOM, which (IMO) is plenty good enough. Granted, if somebody cleaned up 4DOS (or even FreeCOM!), that'd be great, but apparently that's expecting too much. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
