On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:59:03 +0000, Anton Altaparmakov
<ai...@ca...> wrote:
>> >It is very annoying not to be able to just copy some MS header
>> >files because of this issue...
>>
>> what do you mean "copy some MS header files" ?!?
>
>MS publish a lot of public header files (in DDKs and SDKs, etc) and some
>of the existing layout.h in ntfsprogs is derived from them. In
>particular all the security/ACL stuff for example. Doesn't affect us
>that much but if you work on Samba or Wine you will experience this much
>much more...
i'm just worried about the licenses: are you positive
they won't say later e.g. that you were allowed to use
those headers as they are, but you weren't allowed to
cut & paste code from them? (esp as none of the ntfs
headers say "portions (C) m$" or something)
tia,
andras
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