Re: [Freedos-kernel] Copyright owners for kernel license

2009-07-28 Thread Pat Villani
As FreeDOS project coordinator, just email here and you'll contact me. So you just did ;-) Way back in the dark ages, Jim and I had a discussion about licensing and we pretty much settled on GPL. These licensing discussions continue today as well. I won't bore you with the details, but we

[Freedos-kernel] Copyright owners for kernel license

2009-07-27 Thread ibid_ag
Hello all, In another forum (http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=6773), I ran across a discussion of GPL vs. BSD-style licenses. While I personally find the GPL satisfactory, one clause allows relicensing by the author. In the discussion I refer to, relicensing was mentioned. I

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Copyright owners for kernel license

2009-07-27 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:44 PM, ibid...@lavabit.com wrote: ... In the discussion I refer to, relicensing was mentioned. I am curious who should be contacted for such requests, or if relicensing would be allowed, etc. The kernel source says Portions copyright Patrick J. Villani. Would that