[ros-dev] ReactOS Foundation 501c3 Status - Approved

[Steven Edwards]

Hi,
--- ea <ea at iol.it> wrote:
> first of all, thank you for all the time you spent on the Foundation thing.

> This is and has always been a big issue (or big fear?): how is this 
> handled on the Wine side? The only rational reason for a lawsuit is 
> Microsft suspects ROS has some stolen code in it that belongs to them 
> (see SCO versus Linux). We must therefore be sure our code is clean. 
> There could be some funds for paying a code analysis performed by a 
> third party (of course we can not ask a MS coder nor a ROS coder to look 
> at their code and at ours and say if they differ).

Well so far one thing that has helped is the fact that there is no central authority that owns the
code. Jason and I discussed this when we wanted to create the foundation and it was decided that
if someone wants to turn code over to the foundation they can however in any case we will work to
provide legal defence. Another thing Wine and ReactOS has going for them is the new Software
Freedom law center http://www.softwarefreedom.org/. They are helping out with the Wine project so
we get some level of protection from the amount of code we share with Wine. The real issue comes
in on the kernel and driver side. 

I need to email them and discuss a working relationship with the foundation. That is soon on my
todo list.

Thanks
Steven



		
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