Problematic Licenses
This page shall be used to track problematic licenses in the ReactOS source code tree. It was created after a presentation about Licensing Best Practices held by Colin Finck at ReactOS Hackfest 2017.
To put it in a nutshell: Problematic licenses include any form of non-Open-Source licenses or licenses prohibiting commercial usage.
List
| Directory | Problem | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| /modules/wallpapers/Angelus/* | Apparently released under CC-BY-NC preventing commercial usage (needs verification) | ||
| /modules/rostests/testdata/2prong.txt /modules/rostests/testdata/test.pfb /modules/rostests/testdata/test.pfm |
Fonts used as test data under proprietary license that prevents commercial usage | ||
| /drivers/storage/ide/atapi | Under Windows NT4 DDK sample code license | Shipped, but UniATA is used instead by default. | |
| /drivers/wdm/audio/backpln/portcls/miniport_dmus.cpp | Under Windows 2003 DDK sample code license | ||
| /sdk/tools/xml2sdb/tinyxml2.cpp /sdk/tools/xml2sdb/tinyxml2.h |
Needs to be referenced / indexed that these files exist here | ||
| /win32ss/drivers/miniport/vga_new | Under Windows NT4 DDK sample code license | ReactOS .../vga is used. |
