> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Nic Wise
> Sent: Friday, 29 December 2000 12:13
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: Lazarus vs Kylix
>
>
> > I guess there is a question of whether they copied component source code
> to
> > make their components.
>
> well, if they leave the external interfaces the same, and write their own
> code underneath, its legal, AFAIK - fair use and all that. Just
> the same as
> the wine people using MS's SDK docs to rewrite the Win32API.
But MS doesn't publish its source code to Windows, do they? So the Wine
people would not be having the opportunity to copy existing code? (They
could disassemble the DLLs and reverse engineer them but that's not quite
the same thing as working on high level source code)
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