[ros-diffs] [fireball] 56479: [LICENSE] - Add the linking exception text to the official ReactOS licensing text. Previously, the exception text was only available at the ReactOS website with no references from...

Author: fireball
Date: Wed May  2 21:36:27 2012
New Revision: 56479

URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=56479&view=rev
Log:
[LICENSE]
- Add the linking exception text to the official ReactOS licensing text. Previously, the
exception text was only available at the ReactOS website with no references from the
source code.

Modified:
    trunk/reactos/COPYING

Modified: trunk/reactos/COPYING
URL:
http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/COPYING?rev=56479&r1=5…
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--- trunk/reactos/COPYING [iso-8859-1] (original)
+++ trunk/reactos/COPYING [iso-8859-1] Wed May  2 21:36:27 2012
@@ -337,3 +337,12 @@
 consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
 library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
 Public License instead of this License.
+
+
+ReactOS may be used, runtime linked, and distributed with non-free software
+(meaning that such software has no obligations to open-source, or render
+free, their non-free code) such as commercial device drivers and commercial
+applications. This exception does not alter any other responsibilities of
+the licensee under the GPL (meaning that such software must still obey
+the GPL for the free ("open-sourced") code that has been integrated into
+the said software).