Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Software Freedom Day 2012

[Jim H. <jh...@fr...>]

>  > 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