I can see that this project is going to need some sort of official statement about its license interpretations. I'd be glad to write something up when I get time, but if anyone wants to take a stab at it, please do.
While we're at it, we need to write down our unwritten policies about patents, copyrights, trademarks, reverse engineering, and so on.
-Vizzini
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 07:30, theUser BL wrote:
Hi!
I have now send the following mail to the FSF (gnu@gnu.org) with the subject "legality of using closed-source programs with completly GPLd ReactOS".
Greatings theuserbl
Here the mail:
Hi!
There existing a project, which want to rewrite MS-Windows NT, which is called ReactOS. You can see the home of the project at http://www.reactos.com/
The idea is, to have an OS, which can run all MS-Windows NT programs, which can make use of > all the drivers, which exists for WinNT and so on.
But the problem is, that the complete OS is under the GPL.
The people behind the ReactOS-project don't see a problem in using closed-source programs/libraries/drivers on top of their OS.
But what do _you_ think about it?
I have now mentioned the problem ob their mailingliste at http://reactos.com:8080/archives/public/ros-general/2004-February/000736.htm...
But I think, it would be nice, to here a comment of licensing-competent people. So, what do _you_ > think about this?
Greatings theuserbl
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