On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Andy Grover andy@groveronline.com wrote:
Hiya,
I have a GPLed driver using the WDF. I'm not clear on the legal status of redistributing GPLed source compiled with the Windows DDK so I'd like to try MinGW.
After Googling, I see a couple of mentions back in 2004 that "WDF will have to be supported eventually" but nothing since then? Am I correct in assuming if I want to use MinGW, WDF cannot be used?
As far as I understand the DDK license, you can release your code uner any license you want provided you don't use large chunks of the MS samples, however you drivers built with the DDK can only be used on Windows. This stipulation would seem to me to be incompatible with the GPL if say you were building a ReactOS only driver. Now if it just happens to work on both...