[ros-kernel] RE: [ros-cvs] CVS Update: reactos

[Hartmut Birr]

Hi, 

the first paragraph of each M$ EULA says what you can do with the software. 
This one comes from the w2kddk:

...
1. GRANT OF LICENSE.  This EULA grants you the following rights:

. a. SOFTWARE PRODUCT. You may install and use an unlimited number of copies
of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on computers, including workstations, terminals or
other digital electronic devices ("COMPUTERS") to design, develop and test
drivers for use with Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows 98, Second
Edition, and Windows Millennium Edition operating systems ("Drivers"). 
...

This one is from the IFS kit:

...
1. GRANT OF LICENSE. This EULA grants you the following rights: 

. a. SOFTWARE PRODUCT. You may install and use one copy of the SOFTWARE
PRODUCT on a single computer, including workstations, terminals or other
digital electronic devices to design, develop and test for your internal use
on your premises the file system drivers, file system filter drivers, local
(media-based) file systems and remote (network redirector) file systems
("IFS Drivers") for use with Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft
Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Microsoft
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows XP
Service Pack 1, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Microsoft
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, and Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Datacenter Edition operating system products (each an "OS Product"). You may
reproduce, license and distribute the IFS Code as part of the IFS Drivers in
object code form only to your end users, provided you first obtain a valid
digital signature from Microsoft for the IFS Drivers pursuant to any
additional instructions in the SOFTWARE PRODUCT and you comply with the
Redistribution Requirements described below. 
...

M$ says exactly for what you can use the DDK or IFS kit.
 
The first EULA comes from an old M$ web page which was in the google cache.
The second is from the M$ IFS web page.

- Hartmut



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ros-kernel-bounces at reactos.com 
> [mailto:ros-kernel-bounces at reactos.com] On Behalf Of Steven Edwards
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 11:28 PM
> To: ReactOS Kernel List
> Subject: RE: [ros-kernel] RE: [ros-cvs] CVS Update: reactos
> 
> 
> Hi Hartmut,
> As far as the IFS kit I agree with you. If it has a NDA 
> attached to it then yet I dont think we can even look at it 
> but with the PSDK or the DDK would we not be allowed to at 
> least look at the interfaces and reimplement them provide we 
> are not directly copying? Even code on MSDN is copyright 
> Microsoft. Can you point to me where in the EULA it says you 
> cannot use this information to develop software for a non 
> Windows operating system?
> 
> Thanks
> Steven
> 
> 
> --- Hartmut Birr <Hartmut.Birr at gmx.de> wrote:
> > if you download and install the ddk, you must agree an 
> EULA. The same 
> > occurs, if you get or buy the IFS kit. This EULA prevents you from 
> > using any informations from the ddk or the ifs kit for 
> developing any 
> > piece of code
> > for ROS. That is no problem for the informations of the ddk. This
> > informations are available from the web without any 
> restrictions. But
> > you
> > can not use the informations of the IFS kit. If you not respect the
> > EULA or
> > the rights from M$ and use the informations for ROS, do you expect
> > that
> > anybody respects your rights or the rights of the LGPL under which
> > you
> > contribute your code? If it is your attitude to ignore the rights of
> > others
> > for the development of ROS, then you are the wrong person 
> for the ROS
> > team.
> > If this is the attitude of the ROS developer team, then I'm 
> the wrong
> > person
> > for the ROS team. I need clarity for this point. 
> 
> 
> 
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