28,7 → 28,9 |
The program must be free - that is, available at no financial cost. It doesn't |
have to comply to an OSI-approved license or be open-source (even if that |
would be preferred), but at the very least it must be free for personal, |
non-commercial use. |
non-commercial use. This includes "Freeware", "postcardware", etc. "Shareware" |
is acceptable, too, as long as the shareware version of the program fullfills |
the conditions of usefulness, quality and allows repackaged distribution. |
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%hDistribution allowed |
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38,9 → 40,9 |
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%!CORE EXCEPTIONS |
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Please note that, while the above rules are valid for all third-party packages |
that may be distributed with SvarDOS, it does not apply to the 'core' packages |
that contain the operating system itself. SvarDOS being a free (as in "libre") |
operating system, all "core" packages must comply to a libre-like license - be |
it GPL, BSD, MIT, public domain, or anything that allows for unrestricted |
distribution, provides source code and allows to modify it freely. |
While the above rules are valid for all third-party packages that may be |
distributed with SvarDOS, it does NOT apply to the "CORE" packages that contain |
the operating system itself. SvarDOS being a free (as in "libre") operating |
system, all CORE packages must comply to a libre-like license - be it GPL, BSD, |
MIT, public domain, or anything that allows for unrestricted distribution, |
provides source code and allows to modify it freely. |