Re: [ros-dev] The WRK and what it means for ReactOS

[Wesley Parish]

Quoting ShadowFlare <blakflare(a)gmail.com>om>: 
 
>   On 3/20/06, Alex Ionescu <ionucu(a)videotron.ca>
> wrote: 
>   
> >   All this is allowed for any non-commercial or
> > educational use, 
> >  including personal research.  
>   
>  Because of that part of the license, it is likely that the code 
>  couldn't be directly used in ReactOS. In my opinion, that part sounds 
>  incompatible with the GPL, since you ARE allowed to sell things that 
>  are licensed under the GPL. This means that using it as documentation 
>  is the only possible use of it for furthering the development of 
>  ReactOS.  
 
That's my understanding as well.  I - for one of my own projects - wanted to 
make use of the Mosaic source tree; its license provisions are much the same - 
free for non-commercial and research purposes, but not for anything vaguely 
commercial.  I'm still waiting to hear back from them about changing the terms 
to more-GPL-compatible ones.  RMS made it obvious that the GPL wouldn't 
prevent commercial use, and Microsoft does know that at the very least - their 
complaints about the GPL are more to do with it not being the BSDL, open to 
all takers even if they don't want to return anything to the community. 
 
Use the WRK as documentation. 
 
For myself, I have no complaints about Microsoft adding to the FOSS source 
code base; it's other things I worry about. ;) 
 
Wesley Parish 
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