No, it is not GPL, it is not free software. You must (I beleive) pay a
licensing fee to Caldera to get the source. A better thing would be to
take the multitasking stuff from ELKS.
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Perry Harrington wrote:
> You can get the source to Novell Dos 7 from Caldera, off their website, it's
> been GPLd I believe. Anyhow DRDOS 6.0 and Novell Dos 7.0 had 286 task switchers
> with them as a 'program'.
>
> > Hmm.. Is there any code out there that is 8-bit and quite reliable at task
> > switching. Its a pity I can't get Dosshell's source code (remember, from
> > MS-DOS 5.0?). I'm going to make a simple task switcher and then add some
> > timing to it to come up with a pseudo-stable multitasking environment.
> >
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