[ros-dev] about hostlix again :)

Saveliy Tretiakov saveliyt at mail.ru
Sun Jul 3 00:37:14 CEST 2005


Even if hostlix guys wanted to help ReactOS team, they couldn't.  From 
ReactOS  Development  Policy:

  8b) Developers who have had access to proprietary source code that 
would have
      originally fallen under trade secret protection (including, for 
example,
      the leaked Microsoft Windows source code) are a special case.  The
      copyright issues are unchanged, as are the patent issues, but any
      developer who has the code is clearly either under an NDA or else does
      not have a license to possess the code.  In the latter case, there 
is a
      clear violation of the relevant trade secrets by the developer. As 
such,
      this kind of code is unsuitable even for research and 
understanding.  It
      is the policy of the Project to not take submissions from 
developers who
      have or use any such proprietary code in their development efforts for
      ReactOS.

All thouse hostlix guys have seen leaked windows source code and can not 
contribute to ReactOS.
No changes made to hostlix code can be merged back to ReactOS.



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