[ros-dev] Ekush

[James Tabor]

Ge van Geldorp wrote:
> Ekush (http://www.ekush.com) published some binaries. Surprise, surprise, it
> looks like ReactOS very much (Check e.g. the radio buttons on the "Accept
> License" screen during 2nd stage setup). Their readme.rtf
> (epc/doc/Readme.rtf) has these entries:
> 
> <quote start>
> 
> Q. Is the OS completely written from scratch?
> A. Not really in many cases, at least 50% of the components has been shared
> or taken from some other projects. In fact, we mostly get the ideas and
> writing them for ours. Eventually we are coding them new folks are based on
> something else (in wish list) and slowly-slowly they will be removed from
> our main source tree.
> 
> Q. You guys says “Project published under the GPL” but why don’t you
> published sources?
> A. Initially we decided that, EKUSH should be published under the GPL. But,
> still there is some confusion within the team. We are now sharing sources
> between team members only and unless the confusion goes removed we cannot
> publish sources. 
> Finally, we decided to use a BSD styled license for Ekush and sources or
> binaries whatever we publish should be free to public and covered by the
> same license (until a functional edition is released).
> 
> Information sources and Wish List:
> 
> Bochs, Wine, QEMU, Freetype, React OS, Nova OS, Minuet OS, Flask, Athe OS,
> FreeBSD, Systernals, Flik OS, Plan 9, Fravee, V2 OS, Uranium, Fhreed JS,
> Free Dos, OP OS, Jlink Wrap, NETrove, Fedora, LFS, Tiny OS, Pear PC, BartPE,
> KDesktop, Line, WinPenguins, 3D Desktop, 
> Dr. Anil Basu, Jason Robin, William Harry, Luiz Quarteiro, Fernando Adantas,
> Sergio Luiz Silva, John Abraham, Little Robin, Lina Sen, Maria, Adnan, James
> Bukan, Dr. Piera and Project 21 Team."
> 
> <quote end>
> 
> My guess is they are in violation of the GPL by using (some of) our source
> and not publishing their source.
> 
> Gé van Geldorp.
> 
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LOL,
James