Re: [ros-dev] ReactOS 0.3.3 RC1

[theUser BL]

>  we just released the first pre-release (RC1) of the
> upcoming 0.3.3. 
... and it still have the Vista-notepad icon copyrighted by Microsoft.

I already mentioned it
http://www.reactos.org/archives/public/ros-dev/2007-May/009378.html

and the answers where:
http://www.reactos.org/archives/public/ros-dev/2007-May/009379.html
http://www.reactos.org/archives/public/ros-dev/2007-May/009380.html
http://www.reactos.org/archives/public/ros-dev/2007-May/009382.html

If you have no Vista, you can google for "Vista icons" under
"pictures" , 
then you find it.

under
http://www.istartedsomething.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/vista256.jpg
the icon is in the middle of it

the same in small size:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/vista256_s.jpg
http://www.vistaultimate.com/vista-5728-wallpapers-icons.htm

An other side, which show the icons:
http://www.crystalxp.net/news/img/18.jpg
there the notepad icon is on the left side.

and again:
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/6818/vistahighpx7rj.jpg


It is ok,. if you use code and/or icons from other OpenSource-projects.
But if you hear, that there is something not legal, then I think, you have 
to delete the illigal parts (code or icons) so fast as possible.
But I believe, that there comes the time, where your audit
http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Audit
wil be ended and the Microsofts notepad icon is still part of ReactOS.

Greatings
theuserbl

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[Ged]

theUser BL wrote:

>   ... and it still have the Vista-notepad icon
> copyrighted by Microsoft. 
<snip>

>   It is ok,. if you use code and/or icons from other
> OpenSource-projects.
>  But if you hear, that there is something not legal, then I think, you 
>  have to delete the illigal parts (code or icons) so fast as possible. 
My appologies, I had forgotten you had highlighted this to us in the past.

I can assure you that this icon wasn't taken from Vista, it was added to our
codebase well before Vista was released. Although I don't recall the exact
source (it should really have been noted in the commit, but was missed), it
was one of the free icon projects with a GPL compatable licence.

As you can probably imagine, we don't have the resource to check everything
which we take from other projects,  we have to accept their claims on the
legality of the resources they supply. I would normally go back to the
source on such claims and discuss it with them, however as the source of
this was lost, it was better to just remove it without question. The
CrystalXP icon you linked to does look like an obvious source and rather
suspicious.

>   But I believe, that there comes the time, where your
> audit 
>  http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Audit wil be ended and the 
>  Microsofts notepad icon is still part of ReactOS. 
It has been changed in r27788.
This isn't an ideal change as it uses the notepad++ icon which we don't want
to conflict with, so if anyone has any suggestions of a GPL compatible
notepad icons, please let us know.

Thanks,
Ged.




















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[Gabriel ilardi]

Dear Devs,

I just wanted to inform you that the 2nd stage is broken in trunk, it seems 
that the commit in 27783 introduces the problem, the commit says "fixing 
intl are on English", but the setup behaves as an unattended installation, 
not only it doesn't ask for the locales but it also does everything without 
user intervention, it doesn't ask for: name and organization, computer name, 
pwd, date/time, etc.
I don't know if this is a known or wanted situation, in such a case I 
apologize.
WBR,

Gabriel ilardi

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