Copyright law is pretty clear, they can control the terms of distribution of their code and what it can be bundled with.
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Magnus Olsen <mag...@greatlord.com> wrote: > Hi > About discussions about MS license. the question is if > the license agreement to restrict only to Microsoft Windows is valid in EU. > I do not think so. But only a lawyers can tell about that. Rest of the > world I do not known. > > In sweden lest we got so call negative license agreement. That mean part > of a license agreement is not valid for it is bad for user or goes > against any law. > > > > > 2013/12/2 Steven Edwards <winehac...@gmail.com> > >> Look at how the Core Fonts for the Web are handled. We should have >> generic drivers that are 'good enough' to be able get online and download >> the Microsoft ones if the user wants to take the risk of violating >> Microsofts license. >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Alex Ionescu <ion...@videotron.ca> wrote: >> >>> These are all legitimate concerns for a FAT driver, but keep in mind the >>> WDK library also has things like large chunks of the storage stack, the >>> input stack, the floppy stack, audio and network stuff, etc... >>> >>> We could decide to keep our current FAT driver (or find a workaround), >>> but still implement this idea for the other drivers. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Alex Ionescu >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Michael Fritscher <mich...@fritscher.net >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> normally, I wouldn't have any problem with having drivers on a second >>>> disc >>>> / image. But FAT (and in particular cdfs) are core-drivers in my >>>> opinion, >>>> which are needed almost every time - also for booting from CD for >>>> installation. FAT is widely used still today, e.g. on usb-sticks. >>>> >>>> What are currently the biggest problems in these drivers? If remember >>>> correctly, our cache manager isn't compatible to the one in Windows, and >>>> these drivers have workarounds, is it? >>>> >>>> Perhaps the drivers could be written by a GSoC project or something like >>>> that? >>>> >>>> Additionally, what about NTFS? Is there a ntfs-driver in the >>>> MSDN-library >>>> as is the FAT-driver? If not, almost nothing is won if we use the >>>> fat-driver from MS: The OS- dependent part of the ntfs-driver need to be >>>> written from scratch from us anyway, which could then be reused by our >>>> FAT-driver. And hey, the filesystem part of the FAT-driver shouldn't be >>>> too complicated if we managed to write a NTFS-driver^^ >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> Michael Fritscher >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Ros-dev mailing list >>>> Ros-dev@reactos.org >>>> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ros-dev mailing list >>> Ros-dev@reactos.org >>> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Steven Edwards >> >> "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that >> is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ros-dev mailing list >> Ros-dev@reactos.org >> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > -- Steven Edwards "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
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