<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 6:12 PM, David Gerard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dgerard@gmail.com">dgerard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
2009/3/28 Austin English <<a href="mailto:austinenglish@gmail.com">austinenglish@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:34 PM, King InuYasha <<a href="mailto:ngompa13@gmail.com">ngompa13@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">>> What is wrong with OpenWatcom? It is an open source development toolchain,<br>
>> with experimental linux binaries, yes, but they do work the last time I<br>
>> checked (which was when 1.8 release came out).<br>
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> It's not widely available, it's license is not open enough for many<br>
> distros (ArchLinux has it available, and there's an initial Gentoo<br>
> ebuild according to their wiki), but Fedora/Suse/Ubuntu don't have it<br>
> available.<br>
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</div>It fails DFSG (so I'm surprised it passed OSI, given OSI is based on<br>
DFSG), with many important concerns raised:<br>
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<a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-legal@lists.debian.org/msg34684.html" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-legal@lists.debian.org/msg34684.html</a><br>
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I emailed <a href="mailto:licensing@fsf.org">licensing@fsf.org</a> to ask about it (since it isn't on their<br>
list of licenses) and got back a quick reply saying an official<br>
determination wasn't likely any time in the foreseeable future, but<br>
it's definitely not GPL compatible and they couldn't actually tell at<br>
a glance if it was FSF "free" or not.<br>
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- d.<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><div>Unfortunately, at the moment it really is the best we have. AFAIK, there isn't any other FOSS compiler that can build 16-bit DOS/Win16 applications. Unless someone was actually willing to figure out how to make GCC be able to target Win16 (not likely) or write a whole new compiler toolchain to target Win16/DOS, there really isn't anything else left to use.</div>