Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 09:42:16 -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-developer 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:
> On Mon, 5 May 1997, Tim Bird 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...

Absolutely, however in order to do so, we need to get the sources
no?  And who wants to download ALL of them when they'll only be
fiddling with bits and pieces?  I call for a "developer"
distribution that is in multiple packages.  What does everyone
else think?



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