How To Contribute Anyone who wants to join the FreeDOS Project should first read the FreeDOS Maintainers Lists . This lists the software that has already been written for the FreeDOS Project. Looking at this list first will help prevent duplicated effort. People who are interested in writing programs for FreeDOS may be interested in subscribing to the FreeDOS Developer mailing list, fd-dev . The mailing list is where most of the discussion about FreeDOS happens these days.
Programmers talk about their ideas here.
We get a chance to review new changes, new libraries, new programs, and everyone has the opportunity to suggest improvements. But you don't have to be able to write programs to contribute to the FreeDOS Project. There are many things that still need to done, which do not require programming experience. Any effort that goes into writing a FreeDOS would, of course, be redistributed in both binary and source code form. 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.