Re: [Freedos-devel] building freedos

2009-03-25 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Christian, strange that Lucho would make 4DOS unavailable to non-Chinese?? I do not think the 4DOS license would let him do that... I agree that JWASM is not bad. On the other hand, even the OpenWatcom compiler does not seem to be open enough for the taste of Fedora, and JWASM is based on Ope

Re: [Freedos-devel] building freedos

2009-03-25 Thread Christian Masloch
>>> Is the 4DOS license okay for Fedora? > >> I doubt this. Lucho added some ridiculous >> crap and limitations to it. > > Strong words, do you have examples of changes > in 4DOS that are unpleasant for you / others? I'm talking about the license here. Just read what he writes about it on the ma

Re: [Freedos-devel] building freedos

2009-03-25 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Christian, >> Is the 4DOS license okay for Fedora? > I doubt this. Lucho added some ridiculous > crap and limitations to it. Strong words, do you have examples of changes in 4DOS that are unpleasant for you / others? > Yeah, but ask Japheth whether he wants to keep NoMySo compatibility > at

Re: [Freedos-devel] building freedos

2009-03-25 Thread freedos
> Please note that Masm is the original, it closely implements the syntax > which > was suggested by the cpu manufacturer - Intel. The Nasm/Fasm/Yasm/Rosasm > variants implement something which probably works as well, and one can't > prevent them from calling their syntax assembly because this l

Re: [Freedos-devel] building freedos

2009-03-25 Thread Japheth
> Yeah, but ask Japheth whether he wants to keep NoMySo compatibility at all > or whether he would use NoMySo once and then develop his software for > NASM. I beat the answer is no. This is probably true. But please don't get me wrong: I love Nasm. It's just that once you're used to drive a M

Re: [Freedos-devel] building freedos

2009-03-25 Thread Christian Masloch
> DOSLFN is probably not free enough for Fedora [...] I wasn't talking especially about Linux license compatibility here, sorry. > Is the 4DOS license okay for Fedora? I doubt this. Lucho added some ridiculous crap and limitations to it. > Not really written for - Japheth just stopped keeping a