Why did they use the GPL license on DOSBox when the OS it emulates was closed-source and 99.9% of the games you run on it are closed-source, making it impossible to ever do any kind of distribution with a DOS game without violating the license?
There are companies distributing games with DOSBox, like GOG and id, even though the GPL clearly states that a software distribution containing GPL software cannot contain non-free software.
The GPL doesn't cover separate programs shipped with a GPL'ed program. It's the same way you can ship an operating system that runs BSD licensed code on top of the Linux kernel.
>>54539030
I think the GPL2 allows it, but GPL3 wouldn't.
>>54538933
>GPL clearly states that a software distribution containing GPL software cannot contain non-free software.
Not true
>>54538933
OS X ships with GPLed software.
>>54539043
>>54538933
That is not how the GPL works.
i thought dos-box is a dos emulator, not ms-dos emulator. Dos OSes can be open source too, like freedos. But i am probably wrong
>>54542165
Dos box is both an emulator and an implementation of MS-DOS.
dos box have not full support for cmd.com scripts afaik
Wikipedia's definition: "DOSBox is an emulator program that emulates an IBM PC compatible computer running a DOS operating system."
Official site's definition: "An open source DOS emulator for BeOS, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, and Windows."
Nobody said that it is MS-DOS emulator. It is just a DOS emulator that runs DOS programs, including MS-DOS programs.
>>54542178
i suspect a lot of the dos bits are coming out of freedos
