On 29 March 2010 10:14, Saulius Krasuckas saulius2@ar.fi.lt wrote:
- On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
Out of interest, why were you visiting openwatcom.org? Are you also looking into Win16 tests for Wine?
Kind of. I was looking into licensing problems preventing its inclusion in Debian. Seems like I should try starting negotiation between OWC folks and Debian-legal experts on slight license changes.
The problem is that the OpenWatcom licence is so unremittingly awful that debian-legal went "ahahaha, you must be joking" and quickly dismissed it. It obviously fails the DFSG in a ridiculous number of ways. Heck, reading it myself I'm reluctant to even *run* the software.
I'm boggling that the OSI accepted it, given the OSI rules are based on the Debian rules.
I did email licensing@fsf, who said they may try to negotiate with Sybase over getting it to actually being a free software licence. Because it would be an obviously good thing for a good DOS/Win16 compiler to be free software. I don't know if anyone at FSF has managed to do anything about this, though a legacy environment such as this is likely not the highest of priorities for a tiny charity of minimal resources.
- d.