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@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-13...
Ged.
-----Original Message----- From: ros-diffs-bounces@reactos.org [mailto:ros-diffs-bounces@reactos.org] On Behalf Of ekohl@svn.reactos.org Sent: 29 November 2013 14:06 To: ros-diffs@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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