Re: [Freedos-32-dev] Help with the snapshots...

[Luca A. <la...@mb...>]

Hi,

> It seems this program has disappeared from the surface of the earth,
> except our few hard drives ;) Have you got any source for this ? It
> would be illegal to distribute a GPL program without a possibility of
> getting the source somewhere.. Maybe that's the reason it's no longer
> available at freedos.
From what I remember, the source for this program has been sent to the
freedos mailing list by the original author, who claimed that the
program was GPLed. And, you know, GPL one time, GPL forever.

The source of the program is available on the FD/32 cvs repository, and
I don't think this is a GPL violation... If someone wants it, a
``cvs co tests'' should be enough.

My opinion would be to avoid duplicate work, and to use this shell... If
the original author has problems with this (and I don't understand why
he should have problems), he will complain and we will eventually remove
the source from the cvs...

Regarding the other points that you mentioned in your previous mail,
yes, you are right: we will need to copy a GPL.txt file in the floppy
image, and to write a readme.txt that explains where to get the sources.
We can do it when we will make our first official release.

			Luca

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