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

[Alex Ionescu]

Hartmut Birr wrote:

>Alex Ionescu wrote:
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>>hbirr at svn.reactos.com wrote:
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>>>Changed back to the GPL.
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>>>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,
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>>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.
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>The GPL or LGPL says you have to add this header
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It also says you can add it in a COPYING file and simply refer to it. 
This has been verified by us and is a *fact*.

> and you have to add 
>the programmer which held the copyright. 
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I totally agree, please continue your work on this.

>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.
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Good job!

> IMO we have to add
>this header 
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False... referring to the COPYING file is enough.

>and the names of the programmers to all files.
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Yes...thanks for helping.

>- Hartmut
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Best regards,
Alex Ionescu