I just read a comment that you made in the Mesa mailing list and am
seriously concerned about it:
It only attempts to prevent reverse engineering, disassembly and decompilation,
and does not grant
you distribution rights under copyright law in the case that you distribute
Microsoft code to run
on non-Windows platform or license it under a copyleft license.
Please keep in mind that Microsoft has been 'tightening' their EULA agreements.
Before you go out
and do something like what you expressed here:
"I just looked at the d3d11TokenizedProgramFormat.h header because the
documentation on MSDN says
that the shader bytecode format is documented in that file"
bear that Microsoft does track what is being done with their code. If you step
over the line, they
will 'nail' you. They give absolutely NO warning. One user decided to work
with WMP 10 to get it
to work under RedHat. He was given a court order to 'cease and desist' all
work in this manner.
This is why the Wine project and its predecessors Project Odinn and the
WineOS/2 project have always
kept a hands off and no peaking 'under the hood' policy. No FOSS project wants
a visit from any Justice
Department, any Copyright office and lastly no visit from the Thugs Who Work
for Microsoft.
Again, if you feel that what you did is justified, then you are so. Also, keep
in mind that your code
can be blocked in countries that strictly enforce the Microsoft EULAs (the
United States is one of them.)
Very respectfully,
James McKenzie
I'm not a lawyer, and I don't play one on TV. However, I have been around for
the US versus IBM and US versus Microsoft cases
The US Government lost both of them.
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