Le mar 01/02/2005 à 22:46, Scott Ritchie a écrit :
Also on this topic came the subject of diff files. IIRC someone wanted
to include them to help users make use of Microsoft headers that needed
a bit of tweaking.
Are diff files that are patches to Microsoft code legal to be
distributed?
PROTECTED]
Cc : wine-devel@winehq.org
Objet : Re: Wine legalities
Hi Jer,
The ReactOS Project consulted a IP lawyer and came up with a draft policy
statement. Maybe the two
projects could work together on this.
http://reactos.com:8080/archives/public/ros-general/2005-January/001402.html
Thanks
Steven
For diff files, it depends if there is some context
and if you change
some lines or only add/remove some.
It's perfectly possible (even if not much readable
afterwards) to not
have any context lines, to inject #if 0/#endif pairs
around lines to
remove, and to simply add lines to be
Another thought. Microsoft maintains a publicly
available Website for the MSDN, at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com
It has code, knowledge base, API docs -- a large part
of the MSDN subscription CDs. It could be argued that
by doing this, Microsoft has released their copyright
to the public domain.
Jeremy,
I agree - this is an exciting development. Microsoft's
ability to spread FUD and their legal budget are
enormous. We need this kind of expert help.
Here's an area where I'd like an expert opinion. In
the Winelib part of the Wine book, I'd like to include
an example of converting a
Also on this topic came the subject of diff files. IIRC someone wanted
to include them to help users make use of Microsoft headers that needed
a bit of tweaking.
Are diff files that are patches to Microsoft code legal to be
distributed? They have bits of Microsoft code in them, but are they a
Ira Krakow wrote:
Certainly, they're within their rights to hang up if a
Linux/Winword user calls the help desk. But going
after a company who legally pays for Winword licenses
and runs Winword in Linux/Wine is another matter,
bringing up the antitrust bogeyman again.
I'm sure Microsoft would be
Mike wrote:
I'm sure Microsoft would be more than happy to charge you $400/hr
(or whatever their support rate is) to solve your problems running
Microsoft Office on Windows 2000, Wine/Linux, or even MS-DOS 3.1
if you want.
Just have your credit card details ready :)
Heh. Yeah. In fact, I
Hi Jer,
The ReactOS Project consulted a IP lawyer and came up with a draft policy
statement. Maybe the two
projects could work together on this.
http://reactos.com:8080/archives/public/ros-general/2005-January/001402.html
Thanks
Steven
__
