Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 package compilation

[Mercury T. <mer...@gm...>]

I guess I didn't scroll up enough to read your reply! Sorry about that, and
thanks for the input. :)

So, you're saying we should only use 100% GPL software, yes?

I can easily go through and pull the affected packages; I really don't
think there are that many remaining, so going with GPL-only programs
doesn't put us in too big of a hurt.



On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Rugxulo <ru...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Mercury Thirteen
> <mer...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > I'm still reviewing the packages to ensure they're all open source
> > compliant.
> >
> > What are we considering acceptable in this regard? Are we going only with
> > software which has been made available under one of the GNU licenses
> > exclusively? Obviously programs which are free but have no source
> available
> > should be excluded (e.g. Pegasus) but if the source code is freely
> available
> > and/or public, yet not explicitly released under the GPL, does this also
> > suffice for inclusion?
>
> Mercury, I'm sure we all appreciate your work here. It's very tedious
> and difficult, so any efforts from you are very welcome. However, I've
> not even downloaded your archive myself. Too exhausting, especially
> trying to vet thousands of files and licenses.
>
> Long story short: I'm pretty sure Jim Hall (as official project head)
> only wants "free/libre", aka four freedoms. Which here, at least,
> means only stuff that is 100% approved by FSF or OSI, if at all
> possible.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
> http://opensource.org/licenses/category
>
> Honestly, it's almost a lost battle. Without many active maintainers
> of various programs, there's not much else we can do. So we can't
> relicense anything. We can only rewrite key pieces (unlikely) or
> remove them entirely (painful).
>
> This is why it's probably best to keep to a minimum, at first, and
> expand upon it later, instead of including everything and the kitchen
> sink.
>
>
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