Black_Fox wrote:theuserbl wrote:Wrong. Its LGPLv3
Sorry, my bad. I fixed my original post.
Just so there are no confusions. LGPL code is compatible with GPL code. With the latter being more 'free' (with less restrictions to users and more restrictions to creators), but you can mix it with more liberal code, like the BSD, MIT, Apache and... LGPL code, which at least has a linking exception so that you can use free LGPL libraries with commercial programs without having to publicize your entire project in exchange.
(Liberal licenses put less restrictions on creators, allowing them to use open source code and not giving back --at the cost of the user which will have to pay for proprietary software-- or re-licence it to GPL)
ReactOS at its core is primarily being licensed as GPLv2+, but surrounding the main kernel and Wine dependencies there's lots of tools and components with BSDs (the new memory manager?) and Apache (third party stuff like mbed TLS).