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On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:43:15AM +0000, Pollywog wrote:

> On Thursday 26 June 2008 16:17:19 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > What is a good place to look for volunteers who would like to modify
> > Windows source code for an open source software. We have a programme
> > that changes wallpapers on your desktop but it is only available for
> > Windows.
> 
> Is the modification of Windows source code legal?

I don't think he is proposing modifying or distributing any 
Microsloth code.    I understood this to be something he or his
company wrote and now wants to port to other systems.

////jerry

> 
> And yes,  I know that most of us are not lawyers here.

Fortunately.


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