Fastfat is located inside its own binary, so this is considered "mere aggregation", and that is not the problem. (See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation). The problem is that you don't even have a license to use it or distribute it, unless it's on Microsoft Windows. Then again, I'm not a lawyer either and I could be wrong too. It would be great if someone who knows a lot about licenses explained this.
Regards, Alexander On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 05:35:21PM +0100, David Quintana (gigaherz) wrote: > 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 -- 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
