From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: davids@webmaster.com (David Schwartz)
Cc: jswkernel@triad.rr.com (Jason Wohlgemuth), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL Question
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 21:52:38 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E13pGUS-0004pj-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKMEJFLIAA.davids@webmaster.com> from "David Schwartz" at Oct 27, 2000 11:53:06 AM
> If the answer to this is "yes", then Microsoft should own some rights to
> every piece of software that uses the Windows API.
As US copyright law stands of the last few days Microsoft are entitled to
require a magic constant is passed in one register to 'unlock' an API syscall.
If you disassemble code to find that constant you could be jailed.
Alan
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-27 16:36 Jason Wohlgemuth
2000-10-27 16:31 ` David Weis
2000-10-27 17:21 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-27 17:26 ` Matthew Dharm
2000-10-27 17:56 ` Somewhat different " Christopher Friesen
2000-10-27 18:06 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-27 20:49 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-27 17:16 ` Mark Salisbury
2000-10-27 17:23 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-27 18:53 ` David Schwartz
2000-10-27 18:56 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-27 20:53 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-27 19:17 ` James Sutherland
2000-10-27 21:08 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2000-10-27 20:52 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2000-10-30 12:27 ` Helge Hafting
2004-06-28 22:13 GPL question ca_tex-kernel
2004-06-29 11:01 ` David Weinehall
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