Microsoft source code releases - a danger to Wine?

[Ian Pilcher]

According to Slashdot, Microsoft has released the Windows CE source code
under one of their "shared source" licenses.  Needless to say, it would
be an *extremely* bad idea for anyone associated with the Wine project
to look at it.

This leads me to wonder if anyone's ever thought of taking steps to
protect Wine from "contamination" by Microsoft IP (legally, not tech-
nically :-).  As the number of programmers who have been exposed to MS
source code grows the chances of this happening will increase.  I
believe that the FSF uses some type of form/statement before they will
accept code, and it seems like the nature of this project would make it
particularly beneficial.

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Ian Pilcher                                         ian.pilcher at home.com
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