2008/6/14 Steven Edwards winehacker@gmail.com:
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Mark Farnell mark.farnell@gmail.com wrote:
If a student is currently taking, or has previously taken a course derived from the Microsoft Windows Academic Program ... will they become *ineligible* to contribute code to the wine project in the future?
Yes, forever seems to be the curse you are stuck with. So goes what I have heard over the years. Its a bummer too as I know a number of people this affects. This question gets asked more and more these days and we don't seem to have a clear answer for when if ever your taint will wear off. You might want to ask the Samba project how they feel about this and also check with the Software Freedom Law Center. I am curious what they say.
IANAL, but the sources are for the kernel only. This does not include the UI and other DLLs built on top of the kernel. If we know what DLLs the sources correspond to, shouldn't the students be restricted to not contributing to those DLLs only (just like if you use Visual Studio you can't contribute to the ATL or the C/C++ runtime libraries)?
Also, this shouldn't prevent those people contributing to the Wine tests.
Am I correct in this, or does the taint impact all of Wine?
We also need a position on .NET participation, because I believe that the sources come with the MSDN version of Visual Studio 2008. I don't know how far that goes as I only have upto 2005.
- Reece