Re: [GNU-linux-libre] has dosemu freedom issues?

[Sam Geeraerts]

Henry Jensen wrote:
> The source package of Debians dosemu contains a binary and a source
> tarball of FreeDOS

That changes the matter entirely. If FreeDOS is included then there's a 
direct dependency on non-free software. This wasn't immediately clear 
from Debian's copyright file. It would be good to add dosemu to the 
NONFSDG wiki page then.

I read on the dosemu homepage [1] that it can also run "many DOS 
programs" directly. I don't know if there are many free DOS(-only) 
programs and if there's much use in running them. I don't see a problem 
with providing a pure dosemu package (without FreeDOS), but I'm not sure 
if it's worth the effort. I'm guessing we won't have it in gNewSense any 
time soon.

[1] http://www.dosemu.org/