From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL Question
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:27:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39FD693D.7B3E8893@idb.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E13pGUS-0004pj-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > If the answer to this is "yes", then Microsoft should own some rights to
> > every piece of software that uses the Windows API.
>
> As US copyright law stands of the last few days Microsoft are entitled to
> require a magic constant is passed in one register to 'unlock' an API syscall.
> If you disassemble code to find that constant you could be jailed.
Anyone figuring out such a constant could post it anonymously on some
website/newsgroup. Anybody abusing the constant later, including the
real discoverer, can simply claim they got it from that anonymous
sensation
posting. It is now common knowledge. No reverse engineering here...
Helge Hafting
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-30 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-27 16:36 GPL Question Jason Wohlgemuth
2000-10-27 16:31 ` David Weis
2000-10-27 17:21 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-27 17:26 ` Matthew Dharm
2000-10-27 17:56 ` Somewhat different " Christopher Friesen
2000-10-27 18:06 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-27 20:49 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-27 17:16 ` Mark Salisbury
2000-10-27 17:23 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-27 18:53 ` David Schwartz
2000-10-27 18:56 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-27 20:53 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-27 19:17 ` James Sutherland
2000-10-27 21:08 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2000-10-27 20:52 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-30 12:27 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
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2004-06-28 22:13 GPL question ca_tex-kernel
2004-06-29 11:01 ` David Weinehall
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