2009/3/28 Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com:
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:34 PM, King InuYasha ngompa13@gmail.com wrote:
What is wrong with OpenWatcom? It is an open source development toolchain, with experimental linux binaries, yes, but they do work the last time I checked (which was when 1.8 release came out).
It's not widely available, it's license is not open enough for many distros (ArchLinux has it available, and there's an initial Gentoo ebuild according to their wiki), but Fedora/Suse/Ubuntu don't have it available.
It fails DFSG (so I'm surprised it passed OSI, given OSI is based on DFSG), with many important concerns raised:
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-legal@lists.debian.org/msg34684.html
I emailed licensing@fsf.org to ask about it (since it isn't on their list of licenses) and got back a quick reply saying an official determination wasn't likely any time in the foreseeable future, but it's definitely not GPL compatible and they couldn't actually tell at a glance if it was FSF "free" or not.
- d.