Re: SVGA kernel chipset drivers. (yes, again)

Jon Tombs (jon@gte.esi.us.es)
Wed, 12 Jun 1996 11:32:47 +0200 (MET DST)

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Kevin M Bealer said:
>
> On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, John Meacham wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Jon Tombs wrote:
>
> Check legalities first. It may be illegal to do this. I don't know that
> you can link "windows" code to other apps w/o legal ramifications -- esp.
> since win95 was supposed to be this big gaming thing.

I would be very surprised if it could be illegal, this isn't even microsoft
code, but generally it is written by your video card vendor. I've never seen
any shrink wrapped licences on video card drivers. Besides do you think Wine
is illegal because it loads Microsoft dll.

-- 
Jon. <jon@gte.esi.us.es, http://www.esi.us.es/~jon>

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