[ros-dev] Ekush

[Wesley Parish]

Well, I'm now on akshor.com and downloading ekush.zip.  Via google cache, of 
course.  (EmuPC's disappeared, of course.)

Should I forward it to the relevant copyright holders?  (It's 6.1 MB large)

Wesley Parish

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 07:50, J.M.Piulachs wrote:
> 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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