As far as I can tell, the last commit in the SVN for the project was in
2007, so it's either abandoned, in hiatus, or going so slowly that no
commits have been pushed through in the last two years.
I contacted Salvo a year or so ago and he said there's still work on a new
version which will
With respects to DOS-C, if loading non GPL drivers really did violate
GPL, then it would have never been released under GPL. The comparison
of drivers to OSLib is an apples and oranges comparison. A DOS
loadable device driver is simply an executable that is loaded into
memory that follows a
Pat is correct.
A device driver is no different than any other executable, it just normally
gets loaded via CONFIG.SYS instead of AUTOEXEC.BAT or at the command line. If
a GPL OS only allowed GPL applications to run on it, it would be useless. In
the DOS world, almost no programs are GPL,
With respects to DOS-C, if loading non GPL drivers really did violate
GPL, then it would have never been released under GPL.
The GPL's text is huge and complicated, if you weren't aware of a
violation you might have released program X under GPL though it actually
violated the license
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Christian Maslochc...@bttr-software.de wrote:
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I wasn't aware Richard Stallman is a DOS internals expert. Please don't
argue by showing me people which don't believe in something, rather, stay
with actual facts about the kernel and device driver
I have simply stated our position.
I thought you wanted to discuss it since you even opened up a new thread
for it.
Regards,
Christian
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Hi,
I have followed many, many discussions about iteractions of GPL, and I
have read the GPL inumerous times...
GPL is very clear that *derived* work has to be GPL. There is no
restriction in any way for *using with*
Linking with GPL software, or copying a small piece of GPL code is
Wouldn't it have been smarter to request a relicense to LGPL for FreeDOS-32?
That would fix his problems
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Christian Masloch c...@bttr-software.dewrote:
As far as I can tell, the last commit in the SVN for the project was in
2007, so it's either abandoned,
