On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > The kernel provides a public, documented, freely implementable interface > of system calls. I don't know if you can replace it with something > else, but you should be able to.
Then any Windows program which uses undocumented Windows system calls (of which there are plenty) is a derivative work of Windows and can't be distributed without Microsoft's permission, at least until someone discovers the system calls and implements them in Wine?