BCC,LD86, AS86 etc are under the GPL and are licensed as such in ELKS
copyright file from the elks package:
The elks distribution can be ftped from:
ftp://linux.mit.edu/pub/ELKS/dev86/Dev86*
License:
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
And I remember dimly seeing a separate BCC/AS86/LD86 package with a GNU
license. FreeBSD also includes BCC/AS86/LD86 in their freely distributable
section. Someone might check on ftp.cdrom.com what the copyright of their
latest package is.
On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
liw>Bug report 1281 (more than a year old) asks:
liw>
liw>> Does this prevent us from distributing on commercial media? (Such as a
liw>> CD-ROM.)
liw>> This is the as86 and ld86 distribution written by Bruce Evans. It's
liw>> copyright Bruce Evans, all rights reserved although you may use and
liw>> copy it for your personal use.
liw>
liw>The /usr/doc/copyright/bin86 file from version 0.3-1 still says
liw>the same thing. Has anybody checked on this, and asked Bruce Evans
liw>about it? bin86 is needed for kernel compilation, and it'd be a
liw>_real_ shame if it needs to be moved to non-free.
liw>
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