Hello friends,
The issue is whether the appropriate guidelines were followed (http://wiki.winehq.org/CleanRoomGuidelines). One issue is that Wine does not allow people that have ever viewed Microsoft source code to contribute to Wine, but there are other issues. You'll have to talk to Alexandre and see how he feels about this specific issue, but if you've followed all of the guidelines and contribute only your own changes then he might be ok with your contribution.
I see. Perhaps it would be better to reject all these patches since I'm not the only author of all the changes. I understand that this is done to protect yourself and the project, because you do not know the people who touched the sources of the notepad, who they are and how they collected their information, so I agree with you.
Sincerely,
Carlo Bramini.
Because you do seriously believe that ReactOS developers reversed the Windows notepad?! Along with Solitaire & calculator, I suppose? Common sense is a powerful tool, let's make use of it :-).
For the record, ReactOS as well disallows any person who has seen the Microsoft Windows code to comment, contribute, commit to the project. Once again, common sense...
Regarding the authors of the notepad patches/commits, you have all of them with the SVN logs (even when it's an applied patch).
Regars, Pierre S.
Le dimanche 06 mai 2012 à 21:44 +0200, carlo.bramix@libero.it a écrit :
Hello friends,
The issue is whether the appropriate guidelines were followed (http://wiki.winehq.org/CleanRoomGuidelines). One issue is that Wine does not allow people that have ever viewed Microsoft source code to contribute to Wine, but there are other issues. You'll have to talk to Alexandre and see how he feels about this specific issue, but if you've followed all of the guidelines and contribute only your own changes then he might be ok with your contribution.
I see. Perhaps it would be better to reject all these patches since I'm not the only author of all the changes. I understand that this is done to protect yourself and the project, because you do not know the people who touched the sources of the notepad, who they are and how they collected their information, so I agree with you.
Sincerely,
Carlo Bramini.
Pierre Schweitzer pierre@reactos.org wrote:
Because you do seriously believe that ReactOS developers reversed the Windows notepad?! Along with Solitaire & calculator, I suppose? Common sense is a powerful tool, let's make use of it :-).
It's a matter of trust. If a person is known to use illegal practices to write ReactOS code then even adding one line of code to notepad makes her/his contribution dangerous for the entity accepting that code.
For the record, ReactOS as well disallows any person who has seen the Microsoft Windows code to comment, contribute, commit to the project.
That's just a blanket statement, nothing more. It's hard to believe to it if the person(s) publicly accused in using leaked code still commit to ReactOS without any limitation.
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