[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 8:57 PM, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> wrote:
> They can also read the NDA I'm sure they had to sign before
> participating in the program.

There is no NDA as far as I am aware. The license restrictions are
that you can't copy and paste anything but your free to take what
learn. They want to spawn a whole generation of Windows Kernel
developers that know the internals of the OS so they can write device
drivers and the like and supplant using Linux/Unix as a learning tool
in the university.

"You may use any information in intangible form that you remember
after accessing the software. However, this right does not grant you a
license to any of Microsoft's copyrights or patents for anything you
might create using such information."

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/licensing/basics/wrklicense.mspx

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Steven Edwards

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