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

[Steven Edwards]

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.

-- 
Steven Edwards

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