[ros-general] Mail to the FSF

[theUser BL]

Hi!

I have now send the following mail to the FSF (gnu at gnu.org) with the subject 
"legality of using closed-source programs with completly GPLd ReactOS".

Greatings
theuserbl

Here the mail:

>Hi!
>
>There existing a project, which want to rewrite MS-Windows NT, which is 
>called ReactOS.
>You can see the home of the project at http://www.reactos.com/
>
>The idea is, to have an OS, which can run all MS-Windows NT programs, which 
>can make use of > all the drivers, which exists for WinNT and so on.
>
>But the problem is, that the complete OS is under the GPL.
>
>The people behind the ReactOS-project don't see a problem in using 
>closed-source
>programs/libraries/drivers on top of their OS.
>
>But what do _you_ think about it?
>
>I have now mentioned the problem ob their mailingliste at
>http://reactos.com:8080/archives/public/ros-general/2004-February/000736.html
>
>But I think, it would be nice, to here a comment of licensing-competent 
>people. So, what do _you_ > think about this?
>
>Greatings
>theuserbl

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