On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Ian Pilcher wrote:
This leads me to wonder if anyone's ever thought of taking steps to protect Wine from "contamination" by Microsoft IP (legally, not tech- nically :-).
What can we do about that? Since none of the people involved is going to have a look at the actual M$ source, how are we supposed to know if a patch posted on the list is taken from them?
Worse yet: If we coincidentally use similar code to theirs, how can we prove we haven't looked at their code? If I were paranoid, I'd say the single purpose of releasing the source was to get wine in trouble.
I believe that the FSF uses some type of form/statement before they will accept code, and it seems like the nature of this project would make it particularly beneficial.
That won't do much good, because e-mailed statements/forms aren't legally binding. #include <fix-the-law.h>
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