Hi!
In your forum existing a question without any answer:
http://www.reactos.com/content/view/full/1493
And I wonder. Is the complete ReactOS under the GPL?
On the main-side of the homepage there stand:
>License
>ReactOS is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
But if really the complete ReactOS is under the GPL (and without an special
exception like in the GNU Classpath project
http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html).
The problem of the GPL is, that you can't link GPL-incompatible programs
(that are the most of the Windows-programs) with GPL libraries.
In the FAQ there stand nothing about this. But I have seen, that you have
discussed this at
http://reactos.com:8080/archives/public/ros-general/2004-February/000703.ht…
But it seems, that you are still happy with the GPL.
Have a look at Linux. The primary widget-toolkits are GTK+ and Qt. GTK+ is
licensed under the LGPL, thats ok. But Qt is licensed under the GPL (and
QPL) for free. And there existing a third license for commercial use.
If you want to create a closed-source library, which linked to Qt, you need
the commercial license of the Qt, because you can only link to
GPL-libraries, if your program is GPL-compatible.
I think, that ReactOS needs more to be LGPL, then GNU/Linux.
All modules for the Linux-kernel and all drivers are GPL. And they _must_ be
GPL, because the kernel is GPL.
But you want to use with ReactOS closed-source drivers. So your
ReactOS-kernel can not be GPL or it is not legal to use all the
MS-Windows-drivers for ReactOS.
The problem is not only, to run programs on ReactOS. I think, it would be
nice, if it is possible, to create GPL-incompatible
programs/libraries/drivers on ReactOS without using MS-Windows.
I see a very big problem in the use of the GPL in ReactOS.
Do you have contacted the FreeSoftwareFoundation or Richard Stallman, what
they think about the legallity of using proprietary
programs/libraries/drivers with an ReactOS, which is completly under the
GPL?
Greatings
theuserbl
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Hello,
we need to establish a list of Language Coordinators, since we're actually
starting to do the translation of the web site.
And using this case I'm testing the ros-translation list.
I'm sending a copy of this email to ros-general list, but this is the one
and only time I do this, since some people haven't subscribed to
ros-translation yet. Please reply/discuss only in ros-translation, not
ros-general, about translation topics.
As for now, we have:
Dutch (dut) - Mark IJbema
German (ger) - ? Thomas, you have time? Or maybe someone else better, since
you're quite busy with coding?
Italian (ita) - ?
Russian (rus) - me for now, but someone else later
French (fre) - ?
Spanish (spa) - ?
That's languages we have at least two people on them.
With the best regards,
Aleksey Bragin.
Hi
Sorry for posting in ros-general, but i recieved a "user unknown" for
ros-translation(a)reactos.com.
I could offer my help for german.
What does language coordinator has to do? What skills are required?
I have never done it before, so some guidance would be fine (at least
for the start).
Greets
Joerg
Aleksey Bragin wrote:
Hello,
we need to establish a list of Language Coordinators, since we're actually
starting to do the translation of the web site.
And using this case I'm testing the ros-translation list.
I'm sending a copy of this email to ros-general list, but this is the one
and only time I do this, since some people haven't subscribed to
ros-translation yet. Please reply/discuss only in ros-translation, not
ros-general, about translation topics.
As for now, we have:
Dutch (dut) - Mark IJbema
German (ger) - ? Thomas, you have time? Or maybe someone else better, since
you're quite busy with coding?
Italian (ita) - ?
Russian (rus) - me for now, but someone else later
French (fre) - ?
Spanish (spa) - ?
That's languages we have at least two people on them.
With the best regards,
Aleksey Bragin.
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>This situation is a bit different, because the closed-source library
>*strictly needs* the Qt and can't function properly without it. ReactOS on
>the other hand doesn't require these 3rd party drivers and links to them
>dynamicly.
But the Windows-programs *strictly needs* libraries, which draw the windows,
the widgets, etc. And _this_ libraries are in ReactOS GPL.
And don't forget, that there existing people, who want to develop on ReactOS
GPL-incompatible Windows/ReactOS-programs.
>Also this issue was already discussed (see the ros-general mailing list
>archives) even with Richard Stallman's comments.
I have searched the archive at
http://reactos.com:8080/archives/public/ros-general/
The archive have been started on October 2003. And in the complete archive I
have not found anything about this subject. Only in
http://reactos.com:8080/archives/public/ros-general/2003-October/000022.html
and
http://reactos.com:8080/archives/public/ros-general/2004-February/000706.ht…
the GPL is discussed.
But there is nowhere a comment by Richard Stallman.
And your small FAQ (the one for user and the one for developer) don't says
anything about this.
The only think, what I can do, is looking if on one of the older sides of
ReactOS, is a older Mailinglist published, where the answer of my question
stand:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.reactos.comhttp://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.reactos.org
Greating
theuserbl
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j> You must start ros from protected mode if you are running windows.
j> I run win95 and just before windows starts (as soon as I see ' starting win95 ' ) I have to press the F8 key and then select safe mode with command prompt (7). I think it is the ctrl key and not
j> the F8 key in win98.
I've started it from CLEAN DOS (WinME boot floppy), that was real mode
under real DOS.
j> Running ros for the first time is like running windows for the first time, you have to reboot again before you can use it.
Was that normal it hung up in a blue sceen after D: drive check? There
were no messages, after hardware reboot everything was the same -
hanging up after last FAT32 drive check.
As I said, I've got UFS (FreeBSD) partition after that last drive it
checks & hangs up, my version is that it's confused by it. Another
version is DMA-less harddisk (although ATAPI v4)
Hope, somebody'll help,
mirya
Hi all
We've been invited to the German LinuxWorld Frankfurt 2004.
Is anyone interested in setting up a ReactOS booth during the
conference
to represent us? It would be great if we had a team of people manning
the booth. The expo takes place Oct 26-28 - ReactOS should be quite
impressive to demo by that time.
http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/
Cheers
Jason
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Hello,
I am out of development for a few weeks but I have some ideas about
using OpenSSL in ReactOS but we have one minor show stoppper. The
OpenSSL license is not compatible with the GPL so any code that links
to OpenSSL is going to need to be either LGPL or GPL with a exception
for OpenSSL. We need to use OpenSSL in a few user-space dlls (wininet,
rsabase, cryptoapi) and in our implementation of the security subsystem
(lsass, ntoskrnl/se, samlib, etc). In the user-space stuff this isnt a
issue as nothing is really implemented anyway but in the security
subsystem side this may cause a problem because we already have some
existing code. Can we license all of ReactOS as GPL and only license
those files that directly link to OpenSSL as "GPL+Exception"? The is a
problem because OpenSSL uses a BSD style advertising clause that is
incompatible with the GPL.
Thanks
Steven
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