Steven Edwards wrote:
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:57 PM, James Hawkins truiken@gmail.com wrote:
They can also read the NDA I'm sure they had to sign before participating in the program.
There is no NDA as far as I am aware. The license restrictions are that you can't copy and paste anything but your free to take what learn. They want to spawn a whole generation of Windows Kernel developers that know the internals of the OS so they can write device drivers and the like and supplant using Linux/Unix as a learning tool in the university.
"You may use any information in intangible form that you remember after accessing the software. However, this right does not grant you a license to any of Microsoft's copyrights or patents for anything you might create using such information."
That's about as simple as it gets. They cannot contribute to Wine without breaking this.
James McKenzie