[finnix] Copyright and license of Balder (isolinux/dos.imz) and how to reproduce?!

[Fabian Greffrath]

Hi,

I have recently stumbled upon the "Balder" floppy disk FreeDOS 
distribution that is also included on the Finnix live CDs. I am 
currently considering to package it up for Debian, because I find it 
usefull to be able to boot into a full DOS from GRUB.

However, you know, the problem is that balder10.img is a binary image 
and even if mounted contains only binary DOS executable data. For 
Debian I'd like to be able to reproduce the disk image from the 
FreeDOS sources, but I don't know how (additionally I have read 
somewhere that FreeDOS currently does not compile with GCC).

There is already a copy of FreeDOS in Debian in the dosemu package, 
but that does also use precompiled binaries and just ships the sources 
separately (to fullfill the requirements of the GPL, I guess, but the 
package is in the contrib section anyway). Which leads us to the next 
problem: Nowhere in the Balder disk image nor on the surrounding web 
site a license or copyright notice can be found. I believe to know 
that all of FreeDOS is licensed under the GPL, but without written 
proof and access to the sources, this information does not really help 
me to get the software into Debian.

Would you please like to help me
- find the appropriate sources for the software included in the Balder 
disk image
- reproduce the disk image (preferably from the sources or) from the 
precompiled binaries provided by the FreeDOS project?

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thank you very much,
Fabian