Actually I remember developers on the Wine mailing list putting into question wether or not READING MSDN was legal and if this would bar someone from submitting patches to Wine. I believe this is what Magnus is referring to.
-- Best regards, Alex Ionescu
On 24-Sep-07, at 4:08 PM, Steven Edwards wrote:
On 9/24/07, Steven Edwards winehacker@gmail.com wrote:
I am so sick of the lies you are spewing. No one (except Mingw- w32api) has ever said only use stuff only from MSDN. They have said show us an application that uses this api, explain how you documented it, one of those sources of documentation can be MSDN, if its not MSDN explain how you came to figure out the prototype either via test case or reversing the third party application using the implementation. NOT REVERSING the implementation itself and then reimplementing it.
Let me clear the above up, Application or Driver. If you can't point a third party driver, public documentation or some other application using the API why the hell would you need to implement it if no one uses it? And more to the point where would you get your information for a clean-room implementation unless you follow industry standard rules and let someone else reverse the API for you.
-- Steven Edwards
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