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Re: Netatalk and OpenSSL licencing



On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:32:15AM -0700, Ken Arromdee wrote:
> 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?

Given the licenses on Windows and its SDK, MS probably owns your first
born if you write *any* Windows program. Expecting freedom for
developers on Windows is probably silly, since normal users don't
have it either.

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