[ros-dev] Ekush

[Eric Kohl]

"Ge van Geldorp" <gvg at reactos.com> wrote:

> Shortly after I sent this email to ros-dev yesterday the Ekush website
went
> down. Today they are back, with a slightly changed set of binaries. The
> strings I reported yesterday are gone now (well, except for the
> CcRosInitializeFileCache and CcRosReleaseFileCache exports from NTOSKRNL,
> maybe changing the name of an exported symbol was too difficult???).
There's
> still plenty of other evidence of the ReactOS heritage though. I guess
since
> I only reported about ReactOS they forgot to remove the references to Wine
> (except ofcourse the copyright notices, those are gone).
>
> This pisses me off bigtime. I can only explain it as a deliberate attempt
to
> use the work of Qemu, FreeType, Wine and ReactOS without giving credit.

Hi!

I downloaded the old ekush package from a mirror and had a closer look at
it:

IMO, the fdc.sys driver is a hacked Microsoft driver because it uses 'INIT'
and 'PAGE' sections, which are not used in our drivers. This driver does not
contain any debug information as the other drivers do. And the name
'Lianasoft' has the same length as 'Microsoft' so patching the .exe file is
pretty easy.

I could identify most of the other components as ReactOS components because
of unique names in the debug section of the components, like AtapiPolledRead
in atapi.sys or uart_detect in serial.sys and serenum.sys.

I also noticed that the domain ekush.com seem to be registered by Siemens
Bangladesh Ltd. Maybe we should also contact them because Siemens, a
multi-national corporation, should be interested in respecting copyright
law.


Regards,
Eric