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

[Steven Edwards]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd at googlemail.com> wrote:
> IANAL, but the sources are for the kernel only. This does not include
> the UI and other DLLs built on top of the kernel. If we know what DLLs
> the sources correspond to, shouldn't the students be restricted to not
> contributing to those DLLs only (just like if you use Visual Studio
> you can't contribute to the ATL or the C/C++ runtime libraries)?
>
> Also, this shouldn't prevent those people contributing to the Wine tests.

This is the way I feel it should be done, with some sort of reasonable
timeframe but Its up to Alexandre or the SFLC to decide. I mean Wine
is 15 years old, lets assume it lives another 15 years, is someone
that has a license at the university now, unable to write ntoskrnl 15
years from now. Hell even Linus had a copy of the Lyons book that
contained a rip off of Unix sources...

> Am I correct in this, or does the taint impact all of Wine?

Its up to Alexandre and the SFLC to clear this issue up. Its starting
to get raised often enough that I think clarification is warranted.

-- 
Steven Edwards

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