Ekush (http://www.ekush.com) published some binaries. Surprise, surprise, it looks like ReactOS very much (Check e.g. the radio buttons on the "Accept License" screen during 2nd stage setup). Their readme.rtf (epc/doc/Readme.rtf) has these entries:
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Q. Is the OS completely written from scratch? A. Not really in many cases, at least 50% of the components has been shared or taken from some other projects. In fact, we mostly get the ideas and writing them for ours. Eventually we are coding them new folks are based on something else (in wish list) and slowly-slowly they will be removed from our main source tree.
Q. You guys says Project published under the GPL but why dont you published sources? A. Initially we decided that, EKUSH should be published under the GPL. But, still there is some confusion within the team. We are now sharing sources between team members only and unless the confusion goes removed we cannot publish sources. Finally, we decided to use a BSD styled license for Ekush and sources or binaries whatever we publish should be free to public and covered by the same license (until a functional edition is released).
Information sources and Wish List:
Bochs, Wine, QEMU, Freetype, React OS, Nova OS, Minuet OS, Flask, Athe OS, FreeBSD, Systernals, Flik OS, Plan 9, Fravee, V2 OS, Uranium, Fhreed JS, Free Dos, OP OS, Jlink Wrap, NETrove, Fedora, LFS, Tiny OS, Pear PC, BartPE, KDesktop, Line, WinPenguins, 3D Desktop, Dr. Anil Basu, Jason Robin, William Harry, Luiz Quarteiro, Fernando Adantas, Sergio Luiz Silva, John Abraham, Little Robin, Lina Sen, Maria, Adnan, James Bukan, Dr. Piera and Project 21 Team."
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My guess is they are in violation of the GPL by using (some of) our source and not publishing their source.
Gé van Geldorp.