[ros-dev] Ekush

[J.M.Piulachs]

These guys are not aware of google cache ;) 
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:zVauACrLkV8J:www.akshor.com/+&hl=ca

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Tabor" <jimtabor at adsl-64-217-116-74.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net>
To: "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev at reactos.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Ekush


> 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.
>>
> WOOOOW! What happen to the site?
>
> Site temporarily down for maintenance work.
>
> Please visit at a later time.
>
>
>
> LOL,
> James
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