[ros-dev] Ekush

[Ge van Geldorp]

Ekush (http://www.ekush.com) published some binaries. Surprise, surprise, it
looks like ReactOS very much (Check e.g. the radio buttons on the "Accept
License" screen during 2nd stage setup). Their readme.rtf
(epc/doc/Readme.rtf) has these entries:

<quote start>

Q. Is the OS completely written from scratch?
A. Not really in many cases, at least 50% of the components has been shared
or taken from some other projects. In fact, we mostly get the ideas and
writing them for ours. Eventually we are coding them new folks are based on
something else (in wish list) and slowly-slowly they will be removed from
our main source tree.

Q. You guys says “Project published under the GPL” but why don’t you
published sources?
A. Initially we decided that, EKUSH should be published under the GPL. But,
still there is some confusion within the team. We are now sharing sources
between team members only and unless the confusion goes removed we cannot
publish sources. 
Finally, we decided to use a BSD styled license for Ekush and sources or
binaries whatever we publish should be free to public and covered by the
same license (until a functional edition is released).

Information sources and Wish List:

Bochs, Wine, QEMU, Freetype, React OS, Nova OS, Minuet OS, Flask, Athe OS,
FreeBSD, Systernals, Flik OS, Plan 9, Fravee, V2 OS, Uranium, Fhreed JS,
Free Dos, OP OS, Jlink Wrap, NETrove, Fedora, LFS, Tiny OS, Pear PC, BartPE,
KDesktop, Line, WinPenguins, 3D Desktop, 
Dr. Anil Basu, Jason Robin, William Harry, Luiz Quarteiro, Fernando Adantas,
Sergio Luiz Silva, John Abraham, Little Robin, Lina Sen, Maria, Adnan, James
Bukan, Dr. Piera and Project 21 Team."

<quote end>

My guess is they are in violation of the GPL by using (some of) our source
and not publishing their source.

Gé van Geldorp.