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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2004-03-03 15:50:35
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On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 15:20, Andras Erdei wrote: > On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:59:03 +0000, Anton Altaparmakov > <ai...@ca...> wrote: > > >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) I was worried about that, too, so I haven't actually cut'n'pasted anything. I took the information by hand and changed things to make it a derivative of the original which is ok with UK copyright law as I understand it... Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ |
