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I learned a lot just reading the blurb for their youtube video: You probably saw recently that Microsoft and IBM released the source code to MS-DOS 4.00 on Git

I learned a lot just reading the blurb for their youtube video: You probably saw recently that Microsoft and IBM released the source code to MS-DOS 4.00 on GitHub. This is under the MIT License, which is an open source license and compatible with the GNU General Public License that we use in FreeDOS. But if you tried to compile the source code release, you may have hit some problems. I understand it builds fine under MS-DOS, which is what you'd expect. But under FreeDOS, you have to clean up the source code a bit before you can build it. The short version of what's going on is that when they put the code into GitHub, GitHub used UTF-8 for encoding, and DOS uses Code Page 437. Here's how to clean it up. (Visit our website https://www.freedos.org/ https://www.freedos.org/ ) is that really the license? I thought Microsoft released under an "except commercial" educational license?

_mlbt 2y ago
Your memory is correct, that was the case when they first released the DOS source code to the Computer History Museum, but they have since relicensed all open source releases of DOS under the MIT license.
nubinetwork 2y ago
> All files within this repo are released under the MIT License as per the LICENSE file stored in the root of this repo.