[legal] eligibility for contributing code to wine for students / graduates of a course derived from the Microsoft Windows Acadamic Program

[James Hawkins]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Steven Edwards <winehacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Mark Farnell <mark.farnell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If a student is currently taking, or has previously taken a course
>> derived from the Microsoft Windows Academic Program
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/windowsacademic/default.mspx
>>
>> which contains the curriculum resource kit, Windows Research Kernel
>> (containing Windows XP x64 amd Server 2003 SP1 kernel sources) and
>> Project OZ,
>>
>> will they become *ineligible* to contribute code to the wine
>> project in the future?
>
> Yes, forever seems to be the curse you are stuck with. So goes what I
> have heard over the years. Its a bummer too as I know a number of
> people this affects. This question gets asked more and more these days
> and we don't seem to have a clear answer for when if ever your taint
> will wear off. You might want to ask the Samba project how they feel
> about this and also check with the Software Freedom Law Center. I am
> curious what they say.
>

They can also read the NDA I'm sure they had to sign before
participating in the program.

-- 
James Hawkins