[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Open Source Windows Compatibility Projec - savannah.gnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

address@hidden said:

> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Steven Edwards <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: other
> Other License: This project includes a collection of software using many 
> different licenses all of which are GPL compliant. ReactOS is GPL where as 
> WINE is LGPL and Mingw is LGPL with public domain headers. Any new projects 
> much use a GPL compatible license.
> Package: Open Source Windows Compatibility Projec
> System name: osswindows
> Type: 2
> 
> Description:
> Open Source Windows Compatibility Project
> 
> The goals of this project are to provide standards that the ReactOS Project, 
> The Mingw Compiler and the WINE project for interoperation including but not 
> limited to: The win32api headers and runtime, import libraries for that 
> runtime, documentation formats. This project will also contain a repository 
> called “The Open Source Windows Application and Driver Repository” to allow 
> for other project to join the community. The long term goal of this project 
> to create a community much like the GNU project has for a free replacement of 
> Unix-like systems. 
> 
> As this project grows we are planning on creating a non-profit entity called 
> the ReactOS Foundation to oversee future development of Free Software on 
> Windows Platforms and to add in the transition of developers to a ReactOS 
> system or a GNU system.
> 
> This project already exists in so much as the ReactOS project, the WINE 
> project and the Mingw project are working together to support each others 
> efforts. Currently I am working with the WINE developers to port the Win32 
> Shared libraries they have developed back to the Windows system for use with 
> ReactOS. ReactOS developers actively contribute back to the Mingw Project 
> support for Windows compiler technology such as the fastcall naming 
> convention and Structured Exception Handling in C.
> 
> Further information about these projects can be found at the following links.
> 
> http://www.reactos.com
> http://www.winehq.com
> http://www.mingw.org
> 
> Other Software Required:
> Mingw: GNU gcc for Win32
> WINE: Win32 api support for Unix systems
> ReactOS: Open Source Windows NT/2000 clone
> 

Can your software run completely without proprietary softwares?

Is your project a particular library or a collection of softwares? (We
do not host collections of software such as distributions).

Note also taht "Linux" is just a kernel of a more complex system
that we like to refer to as GNU/Linux, to emphasize
the ideals of the Free Software movement.

You can get more informations at
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html

Could you resubmit with statements about it?

You can resubmit your project with ease by copying
the big re-registration URL provided in the mail
you receive at submission

        Regards,


-- 
Mathieu Roy
 
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