Re: [Freedos-devel] Bloček, free software, and FreeDOS

[Ladislav L. <la...@se...>]

Blocek is totaly free and open source program. Use binary and source as you want. In sources and in binary is mentioned the GNU GPL licence.
For slight modification you can just use any text editor and edit configuration language and other helper (in .\KEY_TBL directory).
For deep modification on the source code level you have to use Freepascal which is free under conditions of GNU GPL licence.

> ------------ Původní zpráva ------------
> Od: Bernd Blaauw <bb...@ho...>
> Předmět: Re: [Freedos-devel] Bloček, free software, and FreeDOS
> Datum: 23.8.2012 19:32:01
> ----------------------------------------
> Op 23-8-2012 19:13, Ivan Shmakov schreef:
> 
> > 	even try Bloček myself, as it requires me to use some
> > 	proprietary software first!
> 
> There are people who refuse to use FreeDOS (kernel), which is licensed 
> as open source under the GNU GPL, as they only want to use "free 
> software" as defined by GNU. There's no compatible compiler that's 
> either GPL or free software. OpenWatcom comes closest.
> 
> No idea what the requirements for creating/modifying Blocek are.
> Anyway, let's not turn this into a long license discussion. Despite 
> people having the opinion that the FreeDOS kernel isn't free software, 
> it's still opensource. Additionally, free software for DOS does actually 
> exist. Most likely (32bit?) DJGPP programs licensed as GPL, I guess.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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-devel mailing list
> Fre...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
> 
> 
>