From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Devyn Collier Johnson Subject: Re: DOSEMU Version 2 has been Released (DevynCJohnson@Gmail.com) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 06:16:00 -0400 Message-ID: <51DD3460.4060202@Gmail.com> References: <51DC0C1B.9030108@Gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SkznbvZtOmYtRX0nuaT1Go7CLnN7htecMRgasPDgNP4=; b=Abmd18gOYoycDqQhqPlWYjikDIzH4jZ2dZ0siPqgF+RzfJU/to6mC+wsucd38HE62k GGDHsQEstCr3HpoyUgDkcH8sAprv5ApYJ/sps7OychX9BD3blhsZoJJLd3Q5eceiJ52W OWUOPnVpBopkMhrcBcxWMX/6PCMBlFQ7IWbzZyqiZspTsZMRNxkA/3qI4bMi5TlK5Chn oV9jTlxbiC6It7AGVs7oHIiyxuytZben/lv+86cVMrBE8uHg2w5lTDyno71pEceSmYU+ Qq+l28NsW+LqAV5KLD7Ps3hqVQWYry+xymjGo6fNP/yKrvLVGByqYf2HS8T/GudJbAPO 4WRA== In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Bart Oldeman Cc: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org I will delete the project. On 07/09/2013 10:13 PM, Bart Oldeman wrote: > Hi, > > I feel I should clear up the confusion a bit, as official DOSEMU maintainer. > > Yes, it is true that life has changed quite a bit for me since 2007 > and I am now chasing two small children after work which does not > leave as much energy or time to work on DOSEMU. There has however been > some activity, after 1.4.0 in SVN, the 1.4.0.1 patch release in 2008, > and quite a bit of development in git since Stas returned last year. > The distributions now release based on git that we tried to keep in a > stable state (the devel branch in git is allowed to change more). > > So, if somebody skilled with more time than me puts in all the effort > to release a new version of DOSEMU I should welcome that. > > However, this is not the case here: > 1. "dosemu-reborn" is practically the same as dosemu 1.4.0 but with > licensing changes, some formatting changes and adds "#DOSEMU was > reborn by Devyn Collier Johnson" at various places. A "2.0" should be > instead (IMHO) based on git, be heavily tested, and come with a proper > list of user-visible changes (and not a deleted NEWS file). > 2. The license was changed from GPLv2-only to GPLv3-only. Sorry, you > cannot do that in a fork. While I personally have no problem with > GPLv3, you would have to ask all copyright holders to make such a > change, or replace all code by those copyright holders (the dosemu > files that say "GPLv2 or later" are the exceptions). (Quite similarly > you cannot fork the Linux kernel under GPLv3 either). > > So while I have no problems with people forking, in the way it is done > here I stronly object, and will only confuse people. But I will gladly > pass maintainership to somebody who can release a "DOSEMU 2.0" that > truly deserves that title. > > Regards, > Bart Oldeman > > > > > > > On 9 July 2013 09:11, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote: >> Aloha DOSEMU Users! >> >> I want to info everyone that DOSEMU has been released and is no longer >> abandonware. Feel free to contribute to the new DOSEMU team and help DOSEMU >> compete with DOSbox. >> >> https://launchpad.net/dosemu-reborn >> >> Mahalo, >> >> Devyn Collier Johnson >> DevynCJohnson@Gmail.com >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html