Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [aandrejevic] 60485: [SOFT386] Change the license of Soft386 to GPLv2. The previous license was also GPLv2, but it had a runtime linking exception. The new license is the original GPLv2 with no exc...

[Timo Kreuzer]

Did we ever care about this runtime linking exception stuff? We have
lots of GPL v2 3rd party code, does it all contain this clause?


Am 02.10.2013 10:47, schrieb Aleksey Bragin:
>   You are implementing part of ReactOS so you can't
> just silently
>  relicense your code in one commit to a license which is incompatible
>  with ReactOS aims and goals.
>
>  At the very least, I would appreciate a discussion with our team
>  regarding this before doing such commits.
>
>  Please revert. The runtime linking exception was added for a reason,
>  not for amusement or RMS trolling. RMS is unhappy either way (not that
>  I care about his opinion :).
>
>  Regards,
>  Aleksey Bragin
>
>  On 01.10.2013 2:01, aandrejevic(a)svn.reactos.org wrote:
> >   Author: aandrejevic
> >  Date: Mon Sep 30 22:01:38 2013
> >  New Revision: 60485
> >
> >  URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=60485&view=rev
> >  Log:
> >  [SOFT386]
> >  Change the license of Soft386 to GPLv2. The previous license was also
> >  GPLv2, but it had a runtime linking exception. The new license is the
> >  original GPLv2 with no exceptions.
> >
> >
> >  Added:
> >       branches/ntvdm/lib/soft386/COPYING   (with props)
> >  Modified:
> >       branches/ntvdm/lib/soft386/common.c
> >       branches/ntvdm/lib/soft386/common.h
> >       branches/ntvdm/lib/soft386/common.inl
> >       branches/ntvdm/lib/soft386/opcodes.c
> >       branches/ntvdm/lib/soft386/opcodes.h
> >       branches/ntvdm/lib/soft386/opgroups.c
> >       branches/ntvdm/lib/soft386/opgroups.h
> >       branches/ntvdm/lib/soft386/soft386.c
> >  
>
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