Ken Arromdee wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Andrew Suffield wrote: >>>The FSF's position here is well-known, but has some odd implications. For >>>instance, if you write code that requires Windows libraries, it is a >>>derivative >>>work of Windows, and thus Microsoft can at any time prohibit you from >>>distributing it. >> >>Bad example. There are two implementations of most of the significant >>win32 libraries - windows and wine. Anything which works on both is a >>derivative of neither. > > So before Wine was created, anything which uses a Windows library was a > derivative of Windows?
Yes. - Josh Triplett
