On Sunday 05 August 2007 17:27:23 you wrote: > Thanks for your comments Kai.
My pleasure. > > It's also not allowed to break other laws while developing software. > > Where would you draw the line? Disassembling software is (almost always) > > illegal. Killing people is illegal. Should both be in the development > > guide? I would assume common sense would tell people that they should > > only do things that are legal. > > I thing killing is a bit off topic :-) Sure. I was exaggerating. :) > However i do get your point about making it clear. It would be difficult > to handle. OK, but changing the text i referred to would be a good start > though. > > The text could be changed to (or similar): > > "Disassembling native Windows DLLs is not allowed in the Wine project > due to legal implications. However, this does not change much, as > disassembling native Windows DLLs is virtually always useless, as as > technique disassemly is usually used to find out why the application is > crashing in an otherwise unexplainable way." That would probably help. Feel free to send a patch to the website. Cheers, Kai -- Kai Blin WorldForge developer http://www.worldforge.org/ Wine developer http://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin Samba team member http://www.samba.org/samba/team/ -- Will code for cotton.
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