Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 12:36:03 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Dean Lombardo <dlombardo@excite.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nt source licenses... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990516123045.2241U-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <373E69F2.5BFADB76@excite.com>
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On Sun, 16 May 1999, Dean Lombardo wrote: > 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 They most definately *CAN* sue. I don't think "can't sue" is something that applies to the US in any way. > 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. > But do we have the money to prove that? And if we do, wouldn't it be spend on better things? > Dean > Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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