On Jan 20, 2008 7:34 AM, Rolf Kalbermatter r.kalbermatter@hccnet.nl wrote:
Why an MSDN subsciption should prevent someone from submitting any code to Wine is beyond me, but maybe they changed the EULA of it?? (Which I would suspect would not hold in court because of antitrust concerns).
Or did they really start to ship source code with it? I simply can't believe they would ship ntdll.dll or ntos.exe or other core DLL source code ever.
MSDNAA Subscriber downloads like for university students contain the source for ntos. Microsoft hired Dave Probert to put together the Windows Academic Program and University Source Licenses where they give away like 90% of the core system to push universities to use it to teach operating system design. As I don't have a MSDNAA account I don't know how much of the system is really there but the source license terms are very liberal. i.e. You can learn from it but not copy any code from it, any ideas you take with you are not restricted,etc. I have a friend in the program so I will ask him if it includes any of the Win32 api, but I doubt it.