WDF support

[Andy Grover]

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?

Thanks -- Andy

[Steven Edwards]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Andy Grover <andy(a)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...

-- 
Steven Edwards

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