[Bug 6155] CreateIoCompletionPort and related functions not implemented

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6155





------- Additional Comments From dank at kegel.com  2007-02-07 13:38 -------
There is a licensing issue (ROS is GPL, but Wine is LGPL)
but there's also a tainting issue.  The ReactOS community
welcomes people who have disassembled large parts
of Microsoft Windows to see how it is implemented inside.  

For their story, see
http://www.reactos.org/en/dev_legalreview.html and
http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/TinyKRNL

They say essentially "Oh, no, we stopped breaking the rules last year",
but there is reasonable doubt about that.
What they did was to move the infringing behavior
to the TinyKRNL project, which enthusiastically allows
infringment of Windows copyright by disassembly.
Many developers work on both ReactOS and TinyKRNL,
and the two projects share some code.
While the ReactOS/TinyKRNL community thinks this is
sufficient separation to avoid legal problems,
this is debatable. As a result, the Wine community cannot
afford to accept any contributions from the ReactOS
community, for fear of IP contamination.  Sad, but true.

I imagine wine might be able to accept conformance
tests from ReactOS people, but I'm not sure if any
have been submitted, and I'm not sure how Alexandre
et al feel about even that.


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