[ros-dev] The WRK and what it means for ReactOS

[David Johnson]

Use it!! Nuf said.

On 3/21/06, Wesley Parish <wes.parish at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>
> Quoting Alex Ionescu <ionucu at videotron.ca>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Later this spring, Dave Probert's project will finally be complete with
> >
> > the realease of the WRK to academia, which means that almost any student
> >
> > such as I, Brandon, Filip, etc will have access to it. What is the WRK?
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > With such a wonderful thing at our disposal, how will this impact the
> > kernel audit (postively)? What decisions do we take regarding the WRK?
>
> Well, it gives us a legal avenue to check the Reactos source tree against
> a
> comparable MS WinNT source tree, much in the same way the CSRG used the
> AT&T
> source tree to make the BSD source tree, making sure it did the same
> thing,
> only better.
>
> > Do we use it? We can either use it entirely (ReactOS is, IIRC, an
> > non-commercial research project, unless you still want to "vanquish the
> >
> > evil MS and sell millions"), but that would mean attributing copyright
> > to Microsoft which many here would puke at. Alternatively, it can be
>
> Let Microsoft get copyright attribution when they actively contribute to
> Reactos, not before.
>
> > used as pure documentation, which gives us all the freedom in the
> > world.
>
> We've got freedom from Microsoft now; we shouldn't give it up.
>
> >
> > Or, we can be our true anti-MS/MS-bashing arrogants and call the WRK a
> > heresy that should never be approached or used.
>
> Might be interesting to compare it to the MS WinCE Academic Shared Source
> source tree, find out how the two branches of the same product do the same
> thing.
>
> Wesley Parish
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Alex Ionescu
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