From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: MSDOS support
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:41:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uabfxnkbw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zlnxtdkw.GNU's_Not_Unix!%yavor@gnu.org>
> From: Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:10:55 +0300
>
> David Robinow wrote:
> >
> > Hey, watch your mouth. Who says DOS is proprietary?
> > See http://www.freedos.org/
>
> Some small parts of FreeDOS are proprietary, but the system cannot
> work without them
Which ones are those?
These 2 URLs
http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=General_Information/363
http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=Using_FreeDOS/7
seem to say that the OS is under GPL.
If you mean the 4DOS shell, then it is not necessary to have a fully
functional system, since there's a very good port of Bash that can
be used in its stead.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-01 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-31 7:17 MSDOS support Dan Nicolaescu
2008-07-31 12:16 ` David Robinow
2008-07-31 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-01 7:10 ` Yavor Doganov
2008-08-01 9:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-08-01 9:58 ` Yavor Doganov
2008-07-31 14:05 ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-31 14:41 ` Dan Nicolaescu
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