On Sunday 05 August 2007 17:27:23 you wrote:
Thanks for your comments Kai.
My pleasure.
It's also not allowed to break other laws while developing software. Where would you draw the line? Disassembling software is (almost always) illegal. Killing people is illegal. Should both be in the development guide? I would assume common sense would tell people that they should only do things that are legal.
I thing killing is a bit off topic :-)
Sure. I was exaggerating. :)
However i do get your point about making it clear. It would be difficult to handle. OK, but changing the text i referred to would be a good start though.
The text could be changed to (or similar):
"Disassembling native Windows DLLs is not allowed in the Wine project due to legal implications. However, this does not change much, as disassembling native Windows DLLs is virtually always useless, as as technique disassemly is usually used to find out why the application is crashing in an otherwise unexplainable way."
That would probably help. Feel free to send a patch to the website.
Cheers, Kai