[ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [jimtabor] 37345: - Add path support for ExtTextOut.

[Daniel Reimer]

James Tabor wrote:
> Tell that dmitry guy that wine is under General Public License (GPL)
> and open to coping to other projects with same license. The original
> file was from the wine project as well..... We try to make notes to
> inform and post source information in our source and commit messages.
> This is very legal and proper practice.
>
> Here is the real issue,,,, we are proving wine is from RE sources and
> we are proving it very well........
>
> This is another of many attempts to counter the improvements and
> advances to this project via a back door..... NO ONE from that project
> has contacted me..... ..... ...  This in itself is an interesting
> point..... ..... .. .
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Steven Edwards<winehacker at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Dmitry,
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov
>> <dmitry at codeweavers.com>  wrote:
>>      
>>> http://www.reactos.org/archives/public/ros-diffs/2008-November/027021.html
>>>
>>> Please stop copying Wine code without any copyright and source
>>> reference into reactos. This became very bad practice from your
>>> side during last years.
>>>        
>> I have no power with the ReactOS project other than to ask and try to
>> get policy changed in a democratic manner. I've made the case for the
>> ReactOS to do a better job at proper attribution in code that is
>> imported based on feedback from you in the past. In fact, just
>> yesterday I replied to ros-dev proposing some guidelines for how to
>> handle code imported from Wine. There is nothing more I can do.
>>
>> I have CC'd Alexandre and Jeremy for there thoughts on the subject. I
>> welcome feedback from the Software Freedom Law Center or the FSF with
>> reguards to this issue because on one hand I understand the
>> attribution is important but on the other hand ReactOS is persona
>> non-grata with Wine. Given Wine's reluctance to accept any
>> contributions from ReactOS developers, totally based on guilt by
>> assocation I think its in your best interested not to be credited. The
>> Software is still being released under the terms you granted so I
>> don't see a major violation.
>>
>> > From the LGPL preamble:
>> "...Also, if the library is modified by someone else and passed on,
>> the recipients should know
>> that what they have is not the original version, so that the original
>> author's reputation will not be affected by problems that might be
>> introduced by others."
>>
>>      
> Must I say more?
>
>    
>> Clearly the ReactOS developer is doing you a favor by not hurting your
>> reputation if ReactOS is as Toxic as Wine makes it out to be.
>>
>> Thanks
>> --
>> Steven Edwards
>>
>>      
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>    
I second Steven's thoughts. Regardless how Wine Headquartes thinks about 
us. If we don't credit their work we use, then we are not better than 
some of them are. I don't know how the others think, but I want to 
behave better than some Wine PPL do. Lets add a rule, which forces our 
devs to add the Name of the Original Author to (L)GPLed Code he adds at 
least.

Opinions plz.