[ros-general] ReactOS IP Policy Document

[Ralph Shumaker]

Jason Filby wrote:

>Hi all
>
>Thanks to everyone for the feedback regarding the IP Policy. Find the
>latest revision attached. Unless there are any more objections I'll
>publish this copy.
>
>Thanks
>Jason
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>REACTOS PROJECT DEVELOPMENT POLICY
>2 February 2005
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>The "Microsoft" and "Windows" marks are property of Microsoft Corp.
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>I.  INTRODUCTION
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>Because of the nature of the ReactOS Project, copyright, patent, and other
>legal issues regularly arise in the course of development.  This document
>analyzes each of these areas law and explores implications for ReactOS
>development.
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I still think that "areas law" should be "areas of law".


>C.  Copyrights of Others
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>The ReactOS Project depends on copyright law for the protection of its code,
>and by the same token, it respects the copyrights of others.
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>Following are the policies of the ReactOS Project as they relate to copyright:
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>1) Code copying is absolutely never allowed, unless the copied code is in the
>   public domain or is distributed under a Free software license which permits
>   is combination with a GPL program, such as ReactOS (i.e. is GPL Compatible).
>   You should always assume that you do not have a license unless you are
>   explicitly given one.
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I still say "permits is combination" should be "permits its combination".

It looks like you got the rest of my suggestions.