I had a vision, MSDOS AND LINUX will die and FREEDOS, with GNU/LINUX will be resurrected AS ONE!

License

Any effort that goes into writing a FreeDOS would, of course, be redistributed in both binary and source code form. Therefore, we urge programmers to release their software under a distribution agreement, such as the GNU General Public License (GPL), which says in part from its Preamble:

The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too.

When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.

Anyone may sell a GPL’d operating system (such as FreeDOS) so long as there is a distinction made as to what the customer is actually buying. That is, it must be made clear that the distributor is not claiming that they own or wrote the GPL program, and that they don’t reserve any rights to it.

Additionally, the distributor must understand that any changes they make are to be identified and must be released freely. For example, if someone adds FAT32 support into the FreeDOS kernel, then it falls under GPL and must be freely available. However, if they add FAT32 support as a TSR and simply bundle it with the rest of FreeDOS, then they can charge for that piece of code only.

The idea is to protect the free software and their authors. No one else should be able to take their code and misrepresent it, or worse, illegally or unethically profit from it.

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I actually downloaded the freedos and was able to do some pretty things with it.....