Re: [ros-dev] Ekush

[Wesley Parish]

Well, I'm now on akshor.com and downloading ekush.zip.  Via google cache, of 
course.  (EmuPC's disappeared, of course.)

Should I forward it to the relevant copyright holders?  (It's 6.1 MB large)

Wesley Parish

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 07:50, J.M.Piulachs wrote:
>   These guys are not aware of google cache ;)
>  http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:zVauACrLkV8J:www.akshor.com/+&hl=ca
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "James Tabor" <jimtabor(a)adsl-64-217-116-74.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net>
>  To: "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev(a)reactos.com>
>  Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 2:50 PM
>  Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Ekush
>
> >   Ge van Geldorp wrote:
> > >   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:
> > >
> > >  <quote start>
> > >
> > >  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 don’t 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."
> > >
> > >  <quote end>
> > >
> > >  My guess is they are in violation of the GPL by using (some of) our
> > >  source
> > >  and not publishing their source.
> > >
> > >  Gé van Geldorp. 
> >  WOOOOW! What happen to the site?
> >
> >  Site temporarily down for maintenance work.
> >
> >  Please visit at a later time.
> >
> >
> >
> >  LOL,
> >  James
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