Re: [ros-dev] Re: [ros-svn] [hbirr] 15836: Changed back to the GPL.

[Alex Ionescu]

Hartmut Birr wrote:

>  Alex Ionescu wrote:
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> >  hbirr(a)svn.reactos.com wrote:
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> >     
> >
> > >  Changed back to the GPL.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Updated files:
> > > trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/include/internal/mm.h
> > > trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/anonmem.c
> > > trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/marea.c
> > > trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/section.c
> > >
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> > >  
> > Hi Hartmut,
> >
> > I had someone spend a week to update all our comment module headers
> > and make them the same and remove the old copyright headers. It was
> > decided that there would be one COPYING file in the root which is
> > referred to by the header, and that all the kernel files will follow
> > the format which is already in the files. Please don't start messing
> > up the headers... if you want to update the license/add one, the
> > proper place is the COPYING directory. Or else you're just undoing all
> > the work that was done to standardize the headers.
> >
> >     
> >  
> The GPL or LGPL says you have to add this header
>  
It also says you can add it in a COPYING file and simply refer to it. 
This has been verified by us and is a *fact*.

>   and you have to add 
> the programmer which held the copyright. 
>  
I totally agree, please continue your work on this.

>  At the last weekend, I've wrote
> a mail to berlios with a description about hostilix, that hostilix is a
> 1:1 copy of reactos and that they have only changed or a removed the
> copyright information in the files. The answer was , the reactos files
> doesn't contain any copyright informations. The hostilix files contains
> copyright informations. This means that nobody has replaced a copyright.
> It was difficult for me to find some files where the copyright was
> changed or removed. I've send a sample to berlios.
>  
Good job!

>   IMO we have to add
> this header 
>  
False... referring to the COPYING file is enough.

>  and the names of the programmers to all files.
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>  
Yes...thanks for helping.

>  - Hartmut
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>  
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu