Ainsi parlait Gustavo Homem : > Hi: > > Just a quick question. Is it illegal to distribute _all_ the windows dlls ? Dunno.
> Can you elaborate on this ? No, cause i'm not a layer. And i'm not either a legality zealot :-) However, intellectual property, at last in France, say basically: you only have the rights that were explicitly given to you. If the license doesn't say anything about distribution, then you have no right to distribute the software. In the case of dll, i don't know which license apply, but i guess you could obtain a license agreement (meaning $$$) to distribute them directly from copyright owner. > Is due to the libraries format or because of what they contain ? > > Does Microsoft pay to distribute the non-M$ codecs ? > > Would it also bew illegal to provide them in our web site ? > > Are they illegal because of the GPL nature of linux ? (we can make a > separate CD then) > > I am interested in this since I work for a small linux distro here in > Portugal, and it is impossible to provide a media player (wich actually > plays all the crappy videos the regular users receive by email) without the > dlls . (altough of course divx, mpeg1, mpeg2 would be possible) > > Sorry about making a lot of questions ;) Sorry about being unable to answer them :-) > Thank you very much > Gustavo -- Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG key http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/gpgkey.html _______________________________________________ Avifile mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://prak.org/mailman/listinfo/avifile
