Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: GPL Question | Date | Fri, 27 Oct 2000 21:52:38 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 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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