[ros-dev] Re: [ros-svn] [hbirr] 15836: Changed back to the GPL.

[Hartmut Birr]

Alex Ionescu wrote:

> hbirr at svn.reactos.com wrote:
>
>> Changed back to the GPL.
>>
>>
>>
>> Updated files:
>> trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/include/internal/mm.h
>> trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/anonmem.c
>> trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/marea.c
>> trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/section.c
>>
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> Hi Hartmut,
>
> I had someone spend a week to update all our comment module headers
> and make them the same and remove the old copyright headers. It was
> decided that there would be one COPYING file in the root which is
> referred to by the header, and that all the kernel files will follow
> the format which is already in the files. Please don't start messing
> up the headers... if you want to update the license/add one, the
> proper place is the COPYING directory. Or else you're just undoing all
> the work that was done to standardize the headers.
>
The GPL or LGPL says you have to add this header and you have to add 
the programmer which held the copyright. At the last weekend, I've wrote
a mail to berlios with a description about hostilix, that hostilix is a
1:1 copy of reactos and that they have only changed or a removed the
copyright information in the files. The answer was , the reactos files
doesn't contain any copyright informations. The hostilix files contains
copyright informations. This means that nobody has replaced a copyright.
It was difficult for me to find some files where the copyright was
changed or removed. I've send a sample to berlios. IMO we have to add
this header and the names of the programmers to all files.

- Hartmut