On Saturday 23 February 2008, Volodymyr Shcherbyna wrote: > I am not sure that ReacOS is a good example. Quite a big amount of > code in ReactOS contains leaked code of Windows (from Windows 2k). > Recently I did a research, since I have access to Windows code(code > premium subscription), I am able to compare things. Please don't top post. Unfortunately, that lessens your chances of being able to submit code to the Wine project. I don't know what the Wine project's policy is on such things, it is ultimately Alexandre Julliard's call as the de-facto BDFL. But prior access to competing, proprietary closed-source code puts FLOSS projects at increased legal risk, especially when the closed-source company is making serious public statements about starting law suits over patents. Double especially when that company is Microsoft. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
