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Re: Netatalk and OpenSSL licencing



On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> The kernel provides a public, documented, freely implementable interface 
> of system calls.  I don't know if you can replace it with something 
> else, but you should be able to.

Then any Windows program which uses undocumented Windows system calls (of
which there are plenty) is a derivative work of Windows and can't be
distributed without Microsoft's permission, at least until someone discovers
the system calls and implements them in Wine?



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