[ros-dev] License

Ge van Geldorp gvg at reactos.com
Sun Mar 13 23:39:14 CET 2005


Most of ReactOS is licensed under the GPL. The parts we share with Wine are
LGPL.

Gé van Geldorp.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ros-dev-bounces at reactos.com 
> [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.com] On Behalf Of Sylvain Petreolle
> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 21:44
> To: ros-dev at reactos.com
> Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Vote: Allow 3rd-party distribution of 
> ROS throughXDCCBot.
> 
> 
> Feel free to reread LGPL 2.1 here : 
> http://svn.reactos.com/viewcvs/trunk/reactos/LGPL.txt
> 
> --- Magnus Olsen <magnus at itkonsult-olsen.com> wrote:
> > ReactOS are not a LPGL but GPL
> > it is big diffrent in the licen type
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sylvain Petreolle" <spetreolle at yahoo.fr>
> > To: "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev at reactos.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 8:39 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Vote: Allow 3rd-party distribution 
> of ROS through
> > XDCCBot.
> > 
> > 
> > > If all legal conditions are fulfilled :
> > > - give link to the source
> > > - (alex's idea) provide md5sum of the file(s)
> > >
> > > As some people already said,  3d point cant exist.
> > > (ros is a LGPL system, some magazines already distribute it, etc.)
> > > > [ ] Yes, allow 3rd-party distribution of the OS through the 
> > > > #ros-xdcc channel and ROS-XDCC-001 bot. (support and encourage 
> > > > this distribution)
> > > >
> > > > [X] Yes, allow 3rd-party distribution of the OS, but it must 
> > > > clearly distance itself from officially supported releases 
> > > > (tolerate but do not support this distribution)
> > > >
> > > > [ ] No, only sourceforge and other official ReactOS 
> distribution 
> > > > points should be used.
> > >
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > >
> > > Usurp (aka Sylvain Petreolle)
> > >
> > > humans are like computers,
> > > yesterday the BIOS was all
> > > - today its just a word 
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> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Usurp (aka Sylvain Petreolle)
> 
> humans are like computers,
> yesterday the BIOS was all
> - today its just a word
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