[ros-kernel] Microsoft Give-Away

[Stephen Hodges]

That is a good point. We don't need ReactOS to be licensed under anything. The BSD license is just a waste of time. The GPL is almost a waste of time, except that it wants you to say the magic word "GPL". That's the major difference. I don't think forcing users to say GPL is going to make it any better or worse.

1. Retain copyright information including authors
2. Tell everyone about GPL
3. Do whatever you want as long as it doesn't break rules 1 and 2.

That would be more reasonable, and much easier to understand. The warranty crap is useless, unless you want to sell it. Besides, computer programs don't break like appliances on their own. so even if you did sell it, they don't break on their own, which isn't even your fault. That is never covered under warranty.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rick Parrish<mailto:rfmobile at swbell.net> 
  To: ReactOS Kernel List<mailto:ros-kernel at reactos.com> 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:37 PM
  Subject: Re: [ros-kernel] Microsoft Give-Away


  Mike Nordell wrote:

  >Huh?
  >
  >The "ReactOS license" is the GNU GPL. That license is not restricting uses of the software. It doesn't even try to do it.
  >  
  >
  <snip>

  >Had you written "distributors" instead of "users", I would have agreed.
  >  
  >
  As to what a specific license grants or restricts was not my point. The 
  license is the license. Either live with it of find some other software 
  with a license that is tenable. If nobody *cared* about copyright, we 
  wouldn't be here on this list and we wouldn't be concerned about clauses 
  inside the GPL. But we do care about copyright. We expect people to 
  respect copyright. Otherwise, why bother attaching some license like the 
  GPL to ReactOS or any other project?

  -rick




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