Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:35:34 +0100 | From | Richard Knutsson <> | Subject | Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers |
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David Schwartz wrote: > Most certainly the spirit of the GPL is that it's fair use to tinker with a > work to get it to work on your hardware. Is it not fair use to share that > with other licensees of the original work? Should Microsoft be able to > prevent me from distributing patches to Windows that fix bugs or add > features? > Yes they can, since you have (most likely) breached the contract! To fix a bug in Windows you will have to de-assemble their code (if you are not on their pay-role, of course) and that is explicitly forbidden. You are in no way allowed to read how Windows does things. Or you may just have made random changes and it happens to work, I still don't think they would like it (what other thing may happened by that patch?)
Richard Knutsson
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