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Reply 20 of 24, by Chaos

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MiniMax wrote:

Please check the date when Sierra decided to package DOSBox with their games. Then check the date when GPLv3 was finalized. And then explain to us how GPLv3 could have been used.

Sorry, I didn't know when this was made. it just now got in the store here.

Secondly, your understanding of how the GPL works is flawed if you think that bundling proprietary with GPL'ed software require all the code to be made free.

Since dosbox is implemented in the sierra collections as a part of the whole.
infact. you can't run it without as they've removed all installation programs or setup utils. meaning it's ONE program. and as such, they would hafto use the GPL license.

I'm not sure is this is new in GPLv3 or even is true for GPLv2.

The part about all bundled software etc. Well. I got that from a news paper interview of Richard Stallman. And after reading it again. well. I see I was wrong. it gave non exclusive free rights to any patents concerning that software.

But still. they are either already in breach of your GPL. or would have been if you used GPLv3. I'm too tired to read GPLv2 legalese today. But I'm betting you could sue and win.

Reply 21 of 24, by Dominus

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you can't run it without as they've removed all installation programs or setup utils. meaning it's ONE program.

It's not. Only because they stripped the setup applications doesn't mean the game doesn't have its own exe.
I think MiniMax was right in his last post...

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Reply 22 of 24, by MiniMax

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In the case of Sierra I think this applies:

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq … MereAggregation

Sierra is simply bundling DOSBox with their own crippled versions of the games. There is no linking involved, no shared address space, no complicated interaction. DOSBox is launched with a couple of command line parameters and that is it.

I've used computers since 40mb harddrive was huge, mouse was luxury and printers made more noise than food processors.

FYI, I have used computers since punched cards and paper tapes was my only way of storing data and programs. When consoles resembled and sounded like a gearbox, and booting the computer required careful setting of a row of 16 switches to set the correct load address.

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Reply 23 of 24, by `Moe`

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MiniMax wrote:

FYI, I have used computers since punched cards and paper tapes was my only way of storing data and programs. When consoles resembled and sounded like a gearbox, and booting the computer required careful setting of a row of 16 switches to set the correct load address.

So you used the computers I designed because I was fed up with all that abacus-shifting? You're almost as cool as me. 😜

*scnr*

Reply 24 of 24, by Dominus

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maybe someone should close this thread, no one with the problem seems to want to investigate further (e.g. test the workaround posted by wd) and the remaining conversation seems to drift off into showing off how ridiculously old one is 😀

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