usbdos license

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usbdos license

Postby fritz.mueller » Sun Jun 11, 2023 7:51 am

Hi,
at Gitlab, see: https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/drivers/usbdos/-/issues/2 cardpuncher published the following question:

Hi,
Just noticed, thanks to Willi, that the license of USBDOS makes the package non-free. More specifically, on page 6 of https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/drivers/usbd ... BINTRO.DOC one can read "You also cannot distribute the programs, documentation, or source code and charge (even indirectly) for their distribution." But as stated on https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html "If a license does not permit users to make copies and sell them, it is a nonfree license. If this seems surprising to you, please read on."
This may be a problem for the OEMs like HP that sell computers with FreeDOS. I'd say let's hope Bret would agree to a "standard" free software license, but until then, can this be included?

As I (Willi) just work on FreeDOS help - more than twenty help files, this question is interesting for me too. Could you please check this, and, if necessary, correct the license?

Thank you very much.
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