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DrDOS Inc Breaking GPL

Posted by Hemos on from the bad-news-bears dept.

Bob Dobbs writes "DR-DOS 8.1 (DrDOS Inc) came out at the begining of this month, however instead of an upgrade to DR-DOS 8.0 the new product is based on work available on the internet. The work includes shareware utilities, a badly patched version of the kernel work by Udo Kuhnt, drivers (Samsung, ESS) and utilities from FreeDOS and others (e.g. pkzip). Full information on the FreeDOS site. (Cheers FreeDOS!)"

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  1. Re:This is bad? by mrchaotica · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The difference is that violating the GPL makes the information less Free, whereas violating most other copyrights and/or licenses makes the information more free.

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