dosemu, elligible for extras or does it have legal issues?

Linus Walleij triad at df.lth.se
Sat Dec 3 14:13:09 UTC 2005


On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Hans de Goede wrote:

> I'm thinking about packaging dosemu.

Cool.

> Its license is basic GPL with some extra conditions:

Basically it seems to be fully GPL-compatible, given:

> 2.   This copyright does not cover all parts of the DOSEMU code!
>     Parts of the code not covered by the GPL are marked explicitly
>     within the code, the rest of the code _is_ GPL.

Which license does the parts not covered by GPL use? If its GPL-compatible 
(BSD-nonattributive, etc) it's OK, if it's proprietary it's probably not.

Linus




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