The exact words of the license, as seen at http://www.ohloh.net/licenses/mslpl (I couldn't find a better link for it), are:
"4. (F) Platform Limitation- The licenses granted in sections 2(A) & 2(B) extend only to the software or derivative works that you create that run on a Microsoft Windows operating system product." Excluding that term, the rest of the license is mostly a differently-worded BSD license. If it only needs to be tested in windows to ensure that it works there, then there should be absolutely no problem including it in ReactOS, as long as the terms don't conflict with the other licenses' terms. And GPL with the ReactOS exception, as far as I can tell, allows it. I'm not a lawyer, though, so I could be wrong. On 29 November 2013 16:17, Alexander Andrejevic <thefl...@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote: > Hi Ged, > > Are you sure that we can use software released under the MS-LPL? It has a > rather weird > limitation in section 4, which says that you can only use it on a "Microsoft > Windows operating system product". > Since ReactOS is not Windows, that would mean we can't use it. > Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > Regards, > Alexander > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 02:58:51PM -0000, Ged Murphy wrote: >> Hi Eric, >> >> I know this has been discussed before, but should we not just bite the >> bullet and replace this driver with the Microsoft driver. >> The MS_LPL license allows it to be used in reactos, and it would certainly >> get rid of any unknowns and give us a reliable filesystem to work from. >> >> http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/fastfat-File-System-Driver-135bdf34/view/SourceCode >> >> Ged. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ros-diffs-boun...@reactos.org [mailto:ros-diffs-boun...@reactos.org] >> On Behalf Of ek...@svn.reactos.org >> Sent: 29 November 2013 14:06 >> To: ros-di...@reactos.org >> Subject: [ros-diffs] [ekohl] 61145: [FASTFAT] FsdGetFsVolumeInformation: >> Return volume creation time. >> >> Author: ekohl >> Date: Fri Nov 29 14:05:43 2013 >> New Revision: 61145 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ros-dev mailing list >> Ros-dev@reactos.org >> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > > -- > Alexander Andrejevic <thefl...@sdf.lonestar.org> > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
