Problematic Licenses
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This page shall be used to track problematic licenses in the ReactOS source code tree. It was created after a presentation about Licensing Best Practices held by Colin Finck at ReactOS Hackfest 2017.
To put it in a nutshell: Problematic licenses include any form of non-Open-Source licenses or licenses prohibiting commercial usage.
List
| Directory | Problem | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| /reactos/drivers/filesystems/fastfat_new /trunk/reactos/sdk/lib/3rdparty/fullfat |
Extra restriction to the GPL that prevents commercial usage | |
| /wallpapers/Angelus* | Apparently released under CC-BY-NC preventing commercial usage (needs verification) | |
| /rostests/testdata/2prong.txt /rostests/testdata/test.pfb /rostests/testdata/test.pfm |
Fonts used as test data under proprietary license that prevents commercial usage | |
| /reactos/drivers/storage/class/cdrom /reactos/drivers/storage/class/class2 /reactos/drivers/storage/class/disk /reactos/drivers/storage/ide/atapi |
Under Windows NT4 DDK sample code license | Some can be replaced by similar code under Ms-PL Open-Source license from https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-driver-samples/tree/master/storage/class |
