Re: FIFA Soccer 96 on Windows Vista
Posted on 2007-08-05, 19:51
Re: FIFA Soccer 96 on Windows Vista
Posted on 2007-08-05, 18:22
Re: Slightly-hidden About screen?
Posted on 2007-08-05, 18:19
"We" as in how many? How big a percentage of the DOSBox users is that? And what type of users is that? "pretty damn necessary" for what? And for whom?
Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"
Posted on 2007-08-05, 14:05
Right, 3c) doesn't apply because it only affects non-commercial distributions. 3b) has "a medium customarily used for software interchange" which seems to be formulated more clearly in the v3 license. And a written offer valid for three years would just be putting in a link to the sf page (the …
Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"
Posted on 2007-08-05, 13:32
it's fun to read the forums claiming that we have contacted id or valve. For the record we haven't and they haven't contacted us either. I'm glad to see that the COPYING and AUTHORS and THANKS file were included in the update. However the distribution of the sourcecode of dosbox is still a bit …
Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"
Posted on 2007-08-05, 13:17
Read section 3c of GPLv2 (listed in this thread). Written offer for the source must be valid for 3 years btw.
Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"
Posted on 2007-08-05, 13:05
As far as i understand the gpl license, they are not required to publish the sources, but if they don't they have to make sure that the recipients of the software can acquire the sources easily. Therefore it'd be enough to add some visible reference to the dosbox homepage/download pages, as they …
Re: Slightly-hidden About screen?
Posted on 2007-08-05, 11:31
Who care about it being distributed with or without the (un)necessary files?
Re: Sabre Team won't execute
Posted on 2007-08-04, 22:11
Probably a wise decision.
Re: Strange Speed Issues
Posted on 2007-08-04, 16:51
Hmm - guessing wildly here... Tried with cycles=max? Or some fixed value? Tried different sound settings? Tried disabling (in the config) unused sound emulators?
Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"
Posted on 2007-08-04, 15:54
wd wrote: thread is merged somewhere else it seems Correct. Found it and re-did the link.
Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"
Posted on 2007-08-04, 15:43
Well let's keep in mind that you can download binary distributions of DOSBox without source code directly from the DOSBox site as well. And? The "DOSBox site" is where the authors/copyright/license holders of DOSBox chooses to distribute their work. No license whatsoever, be it the GPLv2, GPLv3, a …
Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"
Posted on 2007-08-04, 15:14
The GPL says you must offer access to copy the source code "from the same place"; that is, next to the binaries. I think you are over-interpreting that gulikoza. It would be perfectly correct of me to distribute a binary DOSBox on-line with a written offer to ship the source on punch cards upon …
Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"
Posted on 2007-08-04, 15:12
Yeah what is the problem here? As long as their distribution is an unmodified binary version of DOSBox that includes the GPL license information... it's totally legal. That is the crucial point: What did they include, what did they not include, and what do it say in the EULA that I assume id …
Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"
Posted on 2007-08-04, 14:46
The forums are busy now. I will sit tight until Monday-Tuesday when the people at id Software will be back in the office. By then I expect some comment. If none is forthcoming, then I will hit my e-mail button.
Re: Aspect correction in DOSBox
Posted on 2007-08-04, 13:44
OT: Nice colourful avatar Ripsaw. Like it.
Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"
Posted on 2007-08-04, 10:51
It is also discussed in the Steam forum: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=582649&page=14 Also: http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=128297 http://www.doomworld.com/vb/doomworld-news/40924-steamy-imps/ http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=27958&page=3 …
Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"
Posted on 2007-08-04, 10:30
Thanks leileilol - that was a handy link. I think I will try to send this link around to the various parties that is using DOSBox as part of their products: http://gpl-violations.org/faq/vendor-faq.html See if I get any reaction. Edit: Another handy resource: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/ …
Re: DOSBox being sold online
Posted on 2007-08-04, 10:14
the buyer gets all the rights the seller has (including selling the software further or giving the copies away for free... and of course the exact source the seller used to create the binaries ) And source thing is where the sellers/redistributors are most likely to break the GPL. It is not enough …
Re: D-Fend has been discontinued
Posted on 2007-08-03, 15:27
Yeah - a big hand to mabus/Onno. D-Fend was a big step forward in DOSBox frontends and obviously inspired other people to create frontends with similar or better facilities. In particular the ability of D-Fend to export the profiles helped the new frontends getting of to a good start. From the …
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