Can resources and translations match Windows?

[Alexandre Julliard]

Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> This question came to me when I saw Austin's patch about adjusting
> notepad resources to more closely match XP.
>
> Is there some kind of copyright on the resources? Are we allowed to
> use the same strings or should it always be our own words (like with
> comments in the source)?

As far as possible it should be our own words. In general there's no
reason to copy the exact wording of error messages.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org