Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Software Freedom Day 2012
Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org writes: […] I wonder if someone could write such a short note on FreeDOS? (In either English or Russian. Or in Esperanto, but that'd force me to use a dictionary.) Well, you can feel free to borrow text from our web page: FreeDOS is a free DOS-compatible operating system that can be used to play games, run legacy software, or support embedded systems. FreeDOS is basically like the old MS-DOS, but better! For example, unlike MS-DOS, FreeDOS lets you access FAT32 file systems and use large disk support (LBA). I'll happily re-use this as the basis for a version of such a note (though I'd like to expand it a bit, and perhaps replace “like the old MS-DOS” with “like the older PC DOS systems”, avoiding an arguably unnecessary reference to non-free software), but I'd like to distribute the result under a free license (such as, e. g., CC BY-SA), so that our flyers will by themselves be free works. This makes me ask: am I permitted to do so? (The GNU project is notable for their use of licenses like CC BY-ND, which disallow the creation of derivative works, while we, obviously, need our flyers in Russian, which, indeed, means that we have to create derivative works, or to avoid any use of the material from their Web pages whatsoever.) -- FSF associate member #7257 http://sf-day.org/ -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Software Freedom Day 2012
Well, you can feel free to borrow text from our web page: FreeDOS is a free DOS-compatible operating system that can be used to play games, run legacy software, or support embedded systems. FreeDOS is basically like the old MS-DOS, but better! For example, unlike MS-DOS, FreeDOS lets you access FAT32 file systems and use large disk support (LBA). I'll happily re-use this as the basis for a version of such a note (though I'd like to expand it a bit, and perhaps replace “like the old MS-DOS” with “like the older PC DOS systems”, avoiding an arguably unnecessary reference to non-free software), but I'd like to distribute the result under a free license (such as, e. g., CC BY-SA), so that our flyers will by themselves be free works. This makes me ask: am I permitted to do so? (The GNU project is notable for their use of licenses like CC BY-ND, which disallow the creation of derivative works, while we, obviously, need our flyers in Russian, which, indeed, means that we have to create derivative works, or to avoid any use of the material from their Web pages whatsoever.) I wrote the web page content I quoted, so I think I'm safe in giving permission here. You can use this under CC Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/) the same as our images on http://www.freedos.org/images/ Attribution for the text can be www.freedos.org. -jh -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Software Freedom Day 2012
Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org writes: (The GNU project is notable for their use of licenses like CC BY-ND, (… for their Web pages…) which disallow the creation of derivative works, while we, obviously, need our flyers in Russian, which, indeed, means that we have to create derivative works, or to avoid any use of the material from their Web pages whatsoever.) I wrote the web page content I quoted, so I think I'm safe in giving permission here. You can use this under CC Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/) the same as our images on http://www.freedos.org/images/ Attribution for the text can be www.freedos.org. ACK, thanks! We're somewhat limited in paper space (the flyers are to be printed on A6 sheets), so the attribution is likely to end up being typeset in fine print. Still, it will be prominently stated in the LaTeX source [1] for the flyers. [1] http://styldeks.am-1.org/~ivan/archives/git/gitweb.cgi?p=sfd-flyers-2012.git -- FSF associate member #7257 http://sf-day.org/ -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
