Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:27:41 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: GPL Question |
| |
Alan Cox wrote: > > > 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.
Anyone figuring out such a constant could post it anonymously on some website/newsgroup. Anybody abusing the constant later, including the real discoverer, can simply claim they got it from that anonymous sensation posting. It is now common knowledge. No reverse engineering here...
Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |