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> Wine devs avoid ReactOS code and devs like the plague Is this due to any patent/copyright issues?

• davidgerard 13y ago
  Copyright worries, I believe. Wine is paranoid of contributors who may have looked too closely at Windows or reverse-engineered it in potentially risky ways. I am vague on details. Also, Wine is LGPL and ReactOS is GPL, so no code can flow in that direction.
  • uaygsfdbzf 13y ago
    ReactOS uses only "clean-room" reverse engineering, so this is not a concern. Also Wine Patches from ReactOS Devs are always sent to Wine first, thus they get Wine's LGPL license, then the ReactOS Devs do a "Wine Sync" to get the code into ReactOS; thus code-flow due to Licensing is also a non-issue.
  • VoiceOfWisdom 13y ago
    uaygsfdbzf, you are marked as dead. I believe this is due to a somewhat brusk comment you made earlier, but your other comments deserve to be seen.
    • uaygsfdbzf 13y ago
      ... hmmm, off the top of my head I'm not sure what I did to get 'killed'. ... Is there [anything I can do / anyone I can ask] to get ... 'resurrected'?