[ros-dev] Vote: Allow 3rd-party distribution of ROS through XDCC Bot.

[Wesley Parish]

For what it's worth, that appears to be the decision taken by the FreeWin 
people - I downloaded the source rar file and found it was pretty much a 
ReactOS 0.2.0 release frozen, but with some other things incorporated.

They were all very upfront about deriving it too, so that is encouraging, and 
they haven't changed the license terms.

I just hope they see fit to make themselves known to us and feed back 
enhancements and bug-fixes.

Wesley Parish

[ros-dev] FreeWin
 Date: Yesterday 10:42:06
 From: ea <ea at iol.it>  (MMS)
 To: ReactOS Development List <ros-dev at reactos.com>
 Reply to: ea at reactos.com, ReactOS Development List <ros-dev at reactos.com>
 
This one seems a derivative work of ros. Is it already known?
http://gro.clinux.org/projects/freewin

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:27, Michael Trausch wrote:
> Steven Edwards wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > --- Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>Just put a trademark on the name but allow it to be used on
> >>derivations on the circumstance that it clearly shows that it is not
> >>_the_ ReactOS.
> >
> > I have looked in to this a bit with the legal council I have on retainer
> > as part of the ReactOS Foundation work. I think it is around $250 to file
> > in a state and around $1000 to file the federal paperwork. I will call
> > the lawyer this week and get numbers and a timeframe on what it would
> > take to make it happen.
>
> If you guys really wanted to, you could hold the trade mark and tell
> people that they MUST come up with a different name for any
> distribution where the ReactOS setup isn't exactly as it comes from
> something like, say, SourceForge.  This way, someone could
> distribute a ReactOS CD with the vanilla installer plus other
> applications (e.g., Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, a Jabber
> client, WinPT, and other stuff, because we can).
>
> Or, someone could do something like Dropline does with GNOME, but
> call it something entirely different, and put in small print
> somewhere that "the product is a deritive work of ReactOS" because
> due to that and the license that ReactOS is, this would require the
> source that makes it a deritive work to be published, as well, and
> if I'm not mistaken, the user must be able to get the source in the
> same format as the binary, so it would be easier for them to just
> include everything all at once.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> 	Later,
> 	Mike

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