Licensing - Make ReactOS conform again!

[Colin Finck]

Hi all!

I've held a presentation at Hackfest today regarding Licensing Best 
Practices, different positions about the GPL and its influence, and ways 
to improve ReactOS' conformance with all involved licenses.

I think we should treat this subject even more seriously than others, 
given that we are an Open-Source project trying to provide an 
alternative to a proprietary product. Also licensing questions arise 
from time to time, which is why we should collect some answers.

Please watch the video at https://youtu.be/OTVVz9VLisU or see the slides 
at 
https://svn.reactos.org/press-media/trunk/Events/2017%20-%20Hackfest/Licensi...
Discussions are open now! :)
But if there are no objections, let's introduce SPDX license headers, 
.ABOUT files, and a complete license list as soon as possible.

Cheers,

Colin

[Mark Jansen]

No objections here!

On 18 August 2017 at 01:53, Colin Finck [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I've held a presentation at Hackfest today regarding Licensing Best
> Practices, different positions about the GPL and its influence, and ways to
> improve ReactOS' conformance with all involved licenses.
>
> I think we should treat this subject even more seriously than others, given
> that we are an Open-Source project trying to provide an alternative to a
> proprietary product. Also licensing questions arise from time to time, which
> is why we should collect some answers.
>
> Please watch the video at https://youtu.be/OTVVz9VLisU or see the slides at
> https://svn.reactos.org/press-media/trunk/Events/2017%20-%20Hackfest/Licensi...
> Discussions are open now! :)
> But if there are no objections, let's introduce SPDX license headers, .ABOUT
> files, and a complete license list as soon as possible.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Colin
>
> Ros-dev mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

[Colin Finck]

I also began with https://reactos.org/wiki/Problematic_Licenses
Please have a look, add other problematic components you found, and 
possible solutions if you have some.

- Colin

Am 20.08.2017 um 16:54 schrieb Mark Jansen:
> No objections here!
>
> On 18 August 2017 at 01:53, Colin Finck [e-mail] wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I've held a presentation at Hackfest today regarding Licensing Best
> > Practices, different positions about the GPL and its influence, and ways to
> > improve ReactOS' conformance with all involved licenses.
> >
> > I think we should treat this subject even more seriously than others, given
> > that we are an Open-Source project trying to provide an alternative to a
> > proprietary product. Also licensing questions arise from time to time, which
> > is why we should collect some answers.
> >
> > Please watch the video at https://youtu.be/OTVVz9VLisU or see the slides at
> > https://svn.reactos.org/press-media/trunk/Events/2017%20-%20Hackfest/Licensi...
> > Discussions are open now! :)
> > But if there are no objections, let's introduce SPDX license headers, .ABOUT
> > files, and a complete license list as soon as possible.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Colin
> >
> > Ros-dev mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
>
> Ros-dev mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev