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Just for clarity, that snippet is talking about the actual CP/M code from Digital Research, not CP/Mish...which is BSD licensed.

CP/M was a commercial product, now sort of abandonware. The last holder was Caldera/Lineo. See the bottom of the FAQ page on the "Unofficial CP/M" site: http://www.gaby.de/cpm/faq.html

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Yup. As it stands, the license only allows that one site to distribute Digital Research code. That was almost certainly a mistake when drafting the license... but finding out who the current license holder is, and then locating someone willing to change it, is likely to be almost impossible.

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