Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 22:11:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT gulliver DOT qc DOT ca>
cc: Tim Bird <tbird AT caldera DOT com>, opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DOS utilities (was Re: A few FS notions)
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On Mon, 5 May 1997, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:

> > This raises the general question of someone (besides Caldera) creating
> > a "distribution" of OpenDOS.  A careful reading of the new license
> > will reveal that this is allowed.  That is, redistribution of binaries and
> > source for non-commercial use (and for no commercial gain) is now
> > allowed.
> 
> Before putting together a distribution with sources, we should take care
> to make the thing compile with free tools...

Well, I completely agree with that for NON-developers, however
developers need distributions as well.

Also, the binary dists should NOT come with source right now
IMHO, and even later on, separate source distribs make more
sense.

However one shouldn't need to download 30M of source code just to
get the source for SUBST either.  I think that it should be
broken down into several pieces such as a BASE source distrib
including the kernel, as well as COMMAND.COM, and the headers for
EVERYTHING, then one only need download the "ODfileutils" source,
or the "OD diskutils" source, or the "driver source", etc...

Similar in nature to GNU that is.

Sounds good to me!
TTYL

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