Hi, Im posting here the next doubt: Yesterday a korean company has released a new OS which is compatible with MS Windows Apps. As they state, they are a propietary OS, and i cant see any GPL code or SVN repository.Of course my lack of Korean can help to not find the open source code,but the little im able to read seems they arent going to release any source code. I know that is quite difficult to replicate Windows APIs, so i?m asking myself if this OS is using Wine code to replicate the APIs. If they are using, they could be violating GPL rules. http://www.tmaxwindow.co.kr/ If you want to have more Info, i point you to the ReactOS Forum,where a thread about this Company can be found. http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7134&st=0&sk=t&sd=a TMax wanted to support MS Windows drivers "using ReactOS as reference(sic)" thanks to "ReactOS is GPL code" but seems they werent able to "replicate" and that they just use a Kernel(i didnt find which one)and "their Code" to support Windows Apps. I know there is somekind of not good relation between Wine and ReactOS, but it?s my obligation to aware you about this issue since we (ReactOS+Wine) are members of the Open Source Community. Wishing that my feels are wrong,and that any GPL has been violated, One Open Source Community Guy.
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:54 AM, nengad24<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Hi, Im posting here the next doubt: > > Yesterday a korean company has released a new OS which is compatible with MS Windows Apps. As they state, they are a propietary OS, and i cant see any GPL code or SVN repository.Of course my lack of Korean can help to not find the open source code,but the little im able to read seems they arent going to release any source code. > > I know that is quite difficult to replicate Windows APIs, so i?m asking myself if this OS is using Wine code to replicate the APIs. > > If they are using, they could be violating GPL rules. > http://www.tmaxwindow.co.kr/ > > If you want to have more Info, i point you to the ReactOS Forum,where a thread about this Company can be found. > > http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7134&st=0&sk=t&sd=a > TMax wanted to support MS Windows drivers "using ReactOS as reference(sic)" thanks to "ReactOS is GPL code" but seems they werent able to "replicate" and that they just use a Kernel(i didnt find which one)and "their Code" to support Windows Apps. > > I know there is somekind of not good relation between Wine and ReactOS, but it?s my obligation to aware you about this issue since we (ReactOS+Wine) are members of the Open Source Community. > > Wishing that my feels are wrong,and that any GPL has been violated, > One Open Source Community Guy.Not too many people speak Korean here, that I know of. Perhaps you should contact the FSF? -- -Austin
> Not too many people speak Korean here, that I know of. Perhaps you > should contact the FSF?Well, i am just following the guidelines when finding a probably case of GPL/LGPL violation:> "You should report it. First, check the facts as best you can. Then tell the publisher or copyright holder of the specific GPL-covered program. If that is the Free Software Foundation, write to <license-violation at gnu.org>. Otherwise, the program's maintainer may be the copyright holder, or else could tell you how to contact the copyright holder, so report it to the maintainer. "In this case the Copyright Holder is Wine project. Reporting to Wine project:Done :) Maybe Moderators must be the ones who has to report to Julliard.> "The copyright holder is the one who is legally authorized to take action to enforce the license." >That means i dont have any kind of Legal power to reach FSF. Any complain must be sent from the "Wine Project" representatives.> "Once you have collected the details, you should send a precise report to the copyright holder "This process means: dissassembling the binary code and checking against the current Wine code. I can do it, but this is a work that should be done by "Wine Project",they know better than me Wine code. So I'm sorry,but i can?t go further. All the quotes are extracted from: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html