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Do you know why the audit was commissioned? It was because of allegations of copyright infringement. The audit has been completed and the ReactOS team claim that all is well with their codebase, that there is no danger of copyright infringement. So what are the ReactOS team doing now? They are implementing their own expressions of Microsoft API's (among other things). There isn't much that Microsoft can do about that as long as the ReactOS system doesn't form a derivative of the Microsoft system.
This was my point all along:
A patch that implements it's own expression of an interface is not necessarily a derivative. A patch that includes a non-trivial amount derived code will make that patch a derivative. You are telling me that all modifications to a GPL program automatically make the modifications to also be GPL. I am saying you are wrong.