[ros-kernel] Microsoft Give-Away

[Jakob Eriksson]

Lorenzo wrote:

>Mike Nordell wrote:
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>>The "ReactOS license" is the GNU GPL. That license is not restricting uses
>>of the software. It doesn't even try to do it.
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>That's false: the license restricts your freedom in many ways. For example,
>you could not just change its name, package it in a binary form and sold it as
>a your own product in a binary form. So, there is some kind of restriction.
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Hold it right there ... selling it - that's redistribution.   We were 
talking uses of the software, besides
redistribute it.


>Obviously, that's not a bad thing. So ­­- the copyright is not the EVIL,
>please don't fall in this common mistake, or it will degenerate in anarchy.
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Agreed, copyright is a very good thing.


regards,
Jakob