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From: James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>
To: James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Andy Grover <andy@groveronline.com>
Subject: Re: Re: writing PV block drivers for Windows
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:20:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <471233D0.8090506@emulex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AEC6C66638C05B468B556EA548C1A77D01249ABA@trantor>

James Harper wrote:
> I can understand the situation with the samples, so I've been careful
> not to use them in any way which could mean that my drivers could be
> considered a 'derived work'.
> 
> But I can't see anything that would indicate that a driver that compiles
> under the WDF could be covered by the Microsoft license...

Then pay very close attention to paragraph (c) in section 3, because if you
then get WQHL certification on the driver, and such certification is a
mandated in many situations for sales and support, then it doesn't matter
where the source came from.

-- james s

Andy's EULA link : http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/ddk/ServerSP1DDKEULA.mspx

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-14 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-13 11:49 writing PV block drivers for Windows James Harper
2007-10-14  1:33 ` Andy Grover
2007-10-14  4:49   ` James Harper
2007-10-14 15:20     ` James Smart [this message]
2007-10-14 17:45       ` Alan Cox
2007-10-15 16:58       ` Andy Grover
2007-10-20  0:50 ` Pezza
2007-10-22 10:49   ` James Harper

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