Hello,
First of all, I'm not qualified to give you a definitive answer, and anything I say is only my personal belief. I'm not a lawyer or anything close to one. I'm jsut writing to give you an approximation of an answer while you wait for the proper answer by someone who is qualified.
I believe that the idea of the restriction is to both prevent breaching of "non-compete" clauses in contracts, and to prevent the situation in which the contributions to ReactOS as seen as having been done by "abusing" the knowledge obtained while you have direct access to Microsoft's internal information.
The best ReactOS will be able to say about this, is if your contribution would be legally welcome. You still may want to verify on your end if you would have any troubles by providing such contributions.
I repeat that I'm just a lowly contributor and my words are not legal advice.
Thanks for the interest. :)
On 18 March 2017 at 13:21, tobias.k@posteo.de wrote:
Hi, I've a question concerning legal restrictions. As mentioned on this page
https://reactos.org/wiki/Subversion#Prerequisites
I'm not allowed to contribute to ReactOS when I'm an employee of Microsoft or of any subsidiary of Microsoft.
In the past, I worked for a German company which was a Certified Partner of Microsoft. As far as I know, it was not a subsidiary of Microsoft. It's not even listed here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio ns_by_Microsoft
(but I don't know if this list is complete).
Since a Certified Partner is not automatically a MS subsidiary or equivalent to it in a sense (as I think), there shouldn't be a problem for me contributing to ReactOS. Is there anybody who can confirm that?
Tobias
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