From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Grover Subject: Re: writing PV block drivers for Windows Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:58:38 -0700 Message-ID: References: <471233D0.8090506@emulex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <471233D0.8090506@emulex.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org James Smart wrote: > 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'. > 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. > http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/ddk/ServerSP1DDKEULA.mspx Not getting a driver WHQL-certified may not matter to a lot of people. BTW in the Vista WDK build 6000 the license appears to be substantially shorter than the link above, and makes no mention of WHQL. See also this thread: http://www.osronline.com/ShowThread.cfm?link=101027 It also seems to agree that if you stay away from the samples, you're OK. James (Harper), is what you have so far available somewhere? -- Andy