Re: [ros-dev] Re: [ros-svn] [hbirr] 15836: Changed back to the GPL.

[Hartmut Birr]

Alex Ionescu wrote:

>   hbirr(a)svn.reactos.com wrote:
>
> >   Changed back to the GPL.
> >
> >
> >
> >  Updated files:
> >  trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/include/internal/mm.h
> >  trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/anonmem.c
> >  trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/marea.c
> >  trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/section.c
> >
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>  Hi Hartmut,
>
>  I had someone spend a week to update all our comment module headers
>  and make them the same and remove the old copyright headers. It was
>  decided that there would be one COPYING file in the root which is
>  referred to by the header, and that all the kernel files will follow
>  the format which is already in the files. Please don't start messing
>  up the headers... if you want to update the license/add one, the
>  proper place is the COPYING directory. Or else you're just undoing all
>  the work that was done to standardize the headers.
>  
The GPL or LGPL says you have to add this header and you have to add 
the programmer which held the copyright. At the last weekend, I've wrote
a mail to berlios with a description about hostilix, that hostilix is a
1:1 copy of reactos and that they have only changed or a removed the
copyright information in the files. The answer was , the reactos files
doesn't contain any copyright informations. The hostilix files contains
copyright informations. This means that nobody has replaced a copyright.
It was difficult for me to find some files where the copyright was
changed or removed. I've send a sample to berlios. IMO we have to add
this header and the names of the programmers to all files.

- Hartmut