Henry Jensen wrote: > Hello,. > > a user of my distro asked if we can include dosemu, another user said, that > we can't because dosemu has freedom issues. > > To quote the user: > "the DOS part needs OpenWatcom (OSS, but NOT libre) or TurboC/TurboC++ > (gratis not libre) to build." The "DOS part" refers to FreeDOS. > > OpenWatcom is released under the "Open Watcom Public License". The FSF > license list don't mention it. > > Has anyone more insight regarding this matter? > > Regards, > > Henry
Sam Geeraerts wrote: > So dosemu is libre and FreeDOS is libre, but FreeDOS can only be built with > non-free tools? That last step is not good, but it's beyond what we should > worry about, IMO. If we have to check the build tools of software that we > don't carry but could be used with one of our packages, then we should also > check the build tools of those build tools and so on. "...a free system distribution cannot include free software that can only be built by using nonfree software." [1] That would seem to prevent dosemu from being included. [1] http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
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