2009/3/28 Austin English <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:34 PM, King InuYasha <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What is wrong with OpenWatcom? It is an open source development toolchain, >> with experimental linux binaries, yes, but they do work the last time I >> checked (which was when 1.8 release came out). > It's not widely available, it's license is not open enough for many > distros (ArchLinux has it available, and there's an initial Gentoo > ebuild according to their wiki), but Fedora/Suse/Ubuntu don't have it > available. It fails DFSG (so I'm surprised it passed OSI, given OSI is based on DFSG), with many important concerns raised: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg34684.html I emailed [email protected] to ask about it (since it isn't on their list of licenses) and got back a quick reply saying an official determination wasn't likely any time in the foreseeable future, but it's definitely not GPL compatible and they couldn't actually tell at a glance if it was FSF "free" or not. - d.
