Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 07:47:14 +0100 From: Dean Lombardo <dlombardo@excite.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nt source licenses... Message-ID: <373E69F2.5BFADB76@excite.com> References: <199905112056.WAA18582@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <v04020a00b3622aef38d4@[192.168.1.12]>
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Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > At 3:51 PM +0700 5/12/99, Ustimenko Semen wrote: > > Are we going to get this license? I am interested in NTFS > > source code a lot... > > I would be very careful about getting an NT source license if > your intention is to write NTFS support for some other operating > system. Microsoft is not doing this licensing for the benefit of > mankind, they are doing it to attract college-type users to > sticking with WinNT over open-source unixes. > > The last thing we need is some code from WinNT which causes us > to be sued by Microsoft... They can't sue - unless, of course, the code is copied verbatim (and it's not very likely to be, anyway). Otherwise, it shouldn't be any more illegal than reverse engineering the code, and several federal appeals courts have held that it is "fair use" to reverse engineer a program in order to examine and copy its ideas and any unprotected expression. Dean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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