On 3/21/06, Wesley Parish <wes.parish@paradise.net.nz> wrote:

Quoting Alex Ionescu <ionucu@videotron.ca>:

> Hi,
>
> Later this spring, Dave Probert's project will finally be complete with
>
> the realease of the WRK to academia, which means that almost any student
>
> such as I, Brandon, Filip, etc will have access to it. What is the WRK?
>
<snip>
>
> With such a wonderful thing at our disposal, how will this impact the
> kernel audit (postively)? What decisions do we take regarding the WRK?

Well, it gives us a legal avenue to check the Reactos source tree against a
comparable MS WinNT source tree, much in the same way the CSRG used the AT&T
source tree to make the BSD source tree, making sure it did the same thing,
only better.

> Do we use it? We can either use it entirely (ReactOS is, IIRC, an
> non-commercial research project, unless you still want to "vanquish the
>
> evil MS and sell millions"), but that would mean attributing copyright
> to Microsoft which many here would puke at. Alternatively, it can be

Let Microsoft get copyright attribution when they actively contribute to
Reactos, not before.

> used as pure documentation, which gives us all the freedom in the
> world.

We've got freedom from Microsoft now; we shouldn't give it up.

>
> Or, we can be our true anti-MS/MS-bashing arrogants and call the WRK a
> heresy that should never be approached or used.

Might be interesting to compare it to the MS WinCE Academic Shared Source
source tree, find out how the two branches of the same product do the same
thing.

Wesley Parish
>
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu
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