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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.
 
%hDistribution allowed
 
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%!CORE EXCEPTIONS
 
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.