Re: Accessibility in GTK+ under Windows - licensing question

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le lundi 23 avril 2012, à 02:04 +0900, Evgeniy Philippov a écrit :
> В Чтв, 19/04/2012 в 08:13 +0200, Vincent Untz пишет:
> > Le mercredi 18 avril 2012, à 13:19 -0400, Colin Walters a écrit :
> > > On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 20:50 +0900, Evgeniy Philippov wrote:
> > > > Evgeniy wrote:
> > > > > <...> Is this possible? My concern is this WSDK EULA.
> > > > 
> > > > Jernej Simončič wrote:
> > > > > The VirtIO drivers for Qemu-KVM build with the Windows Driver Kit, and they
> > > > > include the following in the license: <...>
> > > > 
> > > > Okay. Is it possible to include my possible future UIA code into GTK+
> > > > codebase if I use the Windows SDK headers? (Provided that my code will
> > > > be quality, of course.)
> > > 
> > > That's a really good question, and all I can say here is it needs
> > > someone with actual legal expertise to answer.  I'm not sure
> > > what the process might be for handling that in GNOME.  Do we have
> > > contacts with the FSF who might be able to help?
> > 
> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/legal-list
> > 
> > (or ask the Foundation board to ask our lawyers)
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Vincent
> > 
> 
> Well. I guess I am unable to communicate with lawyera, and I do not know
> how to describe my questions to them, and what are the community laws in
> the legal-list etc. So I either ask people to help me do this
> questioning task, OR someone please do this task, OR I stop this
> accessibility implementation activity at all because legal communities
> are a taboo, a forbidden area and a roadblock for me.

Why not just ask your initial question there? It's a standard mailing
list, so don't be afraid of using it. There's no specific "laws" there.

I would think you'd be in a good position to help the people on
legal-list clarify the question if needed, so that they can answer.

Cheers,

Vincent

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