[libre-riscv-dev] Offtopic: ms-dos released under MIT license

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 7:06 PM Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Found it interesting that Microsoft relicensed ms-dos under the MIT
> license: https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/LICENSE.md

 cool!  historically epic!  now we wait to see if there's any lawsuits
arising from how DOS came into existence... funfunfun :)

> Wonder if FreeDOS will use any of the code.

 probably not... usually these things are released far too late...
*because* a software libre project already did it....

l.