Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [ekohl] 61145: [FASTFAT] FsdGetFsVolumeInformation: Return volume creation time.

[Alexander Andrejevic]

Fastfat is located inside its own binary, so this is considered "mere
aggregation", and
that is not the problem. (See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation).
The problem is that you don't even have a license to use it or distribute it, unless
it's
on Microsoft Windows.
Then again, I'm not a lawyer either and I could be wrong too. It would be great if
someone
who knows a lot about licenses explained this.

Regards,
Alexander

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 05:35:21PM +0100, David Quintana (gigaherz) wrote:
>   The exact words of the license, as seen at
>  http://www.ohloh.net/licenses/mslpl (I couldn't find a better link for
>  it), are:
>  
>  "4. (F) Platform Limitation- The licenses granted in sections 2(A) &
>  2(B) extend only to the software or derivative works that you create
>  that run on a Microsoft Windows operating system product."
>  
>  Excluding that term, the rest of the license is mostly a
>  differently-worded BSD license. If it only needs to be tested in
>  windows to ensure that it works there, then there should be absolutely
>  no problem including it in ReactOS, as long as the terms don't
>  conflict with the other licenses' terms. And GPL with the ReactOS
>  exception, as far as I can tell, allows it. I'm not a lawyer, though,
>  so I could be wrong.
>  
>  On 29 November 2013 16:17, Alexander Andrejevic
>  <theflash(a)sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> >   Hi Ged,
> >
> >  Are you sure that we can use software released under the MS-LPL? It has a rather weird
> >  limitation in section 4, which says that you can only use it on a "Microsoft Windows
> > operating system product".
> >  Since ReactOS is not Windows, that would mean we can't use it.
> >  Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> >
> >  Regards,
> >  Alexander
> >
> >  On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 02:58:51PM -0000, Ged Murphy wrote:
> > >   Hi Eric,
> > >
> > >  I know this has been discussed before, but should we not just bite the bullet and replace
> > > this driver with the Microsoft driver.
> > >  The MS_LPL license allows it to be used in reactos, and it would certainly get rid of any
> > > unknowns  and give us a reliable filesystem to work from.
> > >
> > >
> > > http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/fastfat-File-System-Driver-1…
> > >
> > >  Ged.
> > >
> > >
> > >  -----Original Message-----
> > >  From: ros-diffs-bounces(a)reactos.org [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of
> > > ekohl(a)svn.reactos.org
> > >  Sent: 29 November 2013 14:06
> > >  To: ros-diffs(a)reactos.org
> > >  Subject: [ros-diffs] [ekohl] 61145: [FASTFAT] FsdGetFsVolumeInformation: Return volume
> > > creation time.
> > >
> > >  Author: ekohl
> > >  Date: Fri Nov 29 14:05:43 2013
> > >  New Revision: 61145
> > >
> > >
> > >
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