Re: GSoC 2009

[Ben Klein]

2009/3/29 Tim Felgentreff :
> Owen Rudge wrote:
> > If you have had exposure to Microsoft source code, then I believe I'm
> > right in saying that you are not able to work on Wine, I'm afraid.
>
> I have written to the Software Freedom Law Center about this, but the License
> included with the Windows Research Kernel is actually pretty permissive (even
> allowing me to copy a small number of lines of code, actually. Which I wasn't
> going to do anyway though).

It's not just about licensing, it's also about keeping Wine Wine. We
don't really want people to say "this is how it's done in Windows,
I've seen the source!", we want *proper* tests backing up patches and
new implementations.

At least, that's my interpretation of the SoC rules :)