Re: About bug 1281: bin86 copyright
In article <[🔎] m0v9hp2-000HVrC@liw.clinet.fi> Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> writes:
> Bug report 1281 (more than a year old) asks:
>
> > Does this prevent us from distributing on commercial media? (Such as a
> > CD-ROM.)
> > This is the as86 and ld86 distribution written by Bruce Evans. It's
> > copyright Bruce Evans, all rights reserved although you may use and
> > copy it for your personal use.
>
> The /usr/doc/copyright/bin86 file from version 0.3-1 still says
> the same thing. Has anybody checked on this, and asked Bruce Evans
> about it?
I did years ago, and he answered that he never placed such
restrictions on these programs. This restriction probably was added by
Linus at a time when Linux wasn't distributed under the GPL (wild
speculation ...)
FreeBSD contains them with a 'fine' license (either GPL or BSDish),
however they might differ from the Linux-patched versions.
The clean approach would be to use FreeBSD's (or ELKS') version and
check whether they need some modification in order to compile the
kernel bootstrap code correctly.
Sven
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