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Re: Media player software for linux?
- To: linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
- Subject: Re: Media player software for linux?
- From: "Diego G. Iastrubni" <iastrubn(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:53:00 +0300
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> It doesn't have to be piracy, it can be legal fair use. If you
> legally own a copy of a Windows player, whether or not you have
> Windows itself, nobody is stopping you from using its DLLs in any
> way you like.
So, for using Free-Software (http://www.fsf.org) you need to buy a legal copy
of <any> windows. yes. OK. I understand.
There is a problem with linux today: many people think that if they reverse
engineering some software and re-implement them and distribute the source
code, everything is fine. Well it is not. On this list I heard about some
propel which tried to make a GUI for a commercial program (and that KDE gui
will call the console program), but they were treated with a law suit.
The WINE project? According to MS EULA's you cannot run the win32 app's on
non-microsoft OS, so all MS programs testing on WINE are ILLEGAL. And further
on: the newest developer2000 EULA does not provide you the right to do
OpenSource program with it. Again MS knows what will happen if free software
will enter the win32 market: they will loose that is whey there are afraid.
Anyway :
> Windows itself, nobody is stopping you from using its DLLs in any
> way you like.
I think MS is stopping you. read the EULA.
- diego
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