Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [ros-arm-bringup] 34615: - Add new CDFSdriver. - Does not compile.

[Heis Spiter]

Indeed, that's not conform to EULA that says: "You may not distribute 
Distributable Code to run on a platform other than the Windows platform;".
Moreover, CDFS driver ISN'T listed as a "Distributable Code".
Please revert to avoid any problems.
P. Schweitzer

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From: "Steven Edwards" [e-mail]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 12:21 AM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [ros-arm-bringup] 34615: - Add new 
CDFSdriver. - Does not compile.
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:52 PM,  [e-mail] wrote:
> > URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=34615&view=rev
> > Log:
> > Add new CDFS driver.
> > Does not compile.
>
> Ehem...as far as I understand the EULA (unless its changed) you cannot
> use the WDK references drivers for a non-windows OS. Please revert
> this and write you own.
>
> -- 
> Steven Edwards
>
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[Alex Ionescu]

Please don't quote me on this, but:

- I believe the distributable code does not apply to ReactOS since it - 
is- a Windows platform. The driver remains a Windows platform driver.  
Otherwise, any driver that happens to run under BSD (with the  
NDISWrapper, for example) would suddently become a "non-Windows"  
driver. ReactOS's ability to load Windows drivers is a side-effect. As  
long as the driver is still a Windows driver, it should be fine.
- Looking quickly through the sources, it seems the driver doesn't  
actually run on ReactOS in the first place -- it's missing about 40  
unimplemented functions. Unless someone's planning on writing all of  
those, I don't believe the intent is to run this code. (See the  
previous commit message which talked about CDFS incompatibility).
- The "distributable code" clause was added in the WDK, it wasn't  
there in the Server 2003 DDK. Again, from a quick look, this looks  
like the server 2003 driver from the DDK, not the Vista driver from  
the WDK.

Finally, seeing as how all original copyrights were kept, I think this  
is okay for now. Note that VirtualBox (A Sun owned company, now) took  
a couple of sample drivers from the DDK and put them into their  
codebase, and even stuck GPL licenses on them. I think that's way worse.

Anyways, as long as this is a 2003 DDK sample that doesn't run and  
isn't compiled into a binary, it should be okay. Again, don't quote me  
on this, just my 2 cents from having dealt with these issues before.

Worse case scenario, that directory can be ACLed by Fireball to be  
readable only by active developers -- much like companies can have DDK  
sources on an internal network share -- as long as it's not  
distributed outside.

On 20-Jul-08, at 3:34 PM, Heis Spiter wrote:
> Indeed, that's not conform to EULA that says: "You may not distribute
> Distributable Code to run on a platform other than the Windows  
> platform;".
> Moreover, CDFS driver ISN'T listed as a "Distributable Code".
> Please revert to avoid any problems.
> P. Schweitzer
>
> From: "Steven Edwards" [e-mail]
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 12:21 AM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [ros-arm-bringup] 34615: - Add new
> CDFSdriver. - Does not compile.
> > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:52 PM,  [e-mail]  
> > wrote:
> > > URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=34615&view=rev
> > > Log:
> > > Add new CDFS driver.
> > > Does not compile.
> >
> > Ehem...as far as I understand the EULA (unless its changed) you  
> > cannot
> > use the WDK references drivers for a non-windows OS. Please revert
> > this and write you own.
> >
> > -- 
> > Steven Edwards
> >
> > "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
> > that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
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Best regards,
Alex Ionescu

[Steven Edwards]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Alex Ionescu [e-mail] wrote:
> Please don't quote me on this, but:

I won't quote the whole thing then. =)

I just don't think its worth the risk. I think if we were
independently packaging the drivers for Windows saying "DDK drivers
compiled with Mingw, developed to enhance Mingw DDK" or something you
could make the argument that yeah Windows, and by this I mean
Microsoft Windows, not us, the knockoff Windows is the target. Then if
ReactOS just happens to pick those drivers up and bundle them, we
would be fine. As it stands now its pretty obvious that ReactOS is the
only intended target.
-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo