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That sounds reasonable, but why are Wine developers and the like discouraged from looking at the original source code they're trying to emulate?
by copperx 9y ago
That sounds reasonable, but why are Wine developers and the like discouraged from looking at the original source code they're trying to emulate?
- bonzini 9y agoBecause that source code is not supposed to be publicly available (in the case of Wine and ReactOS).
- saurik 9y agoThat just means it was copied without permission... like this code, which is by default All Rights Reserved. For maybe more on-topic examples, though, note companies that are very careful about employees looking at open source code.
- bonzini 9y agoWhile this code is "all rights reserved", you do have the right to view it according to the GitHub terms of service. This is not true for Windows. Alleging that Wine authors have participated in illegal sharing of source code would be a powerful accusation, and the authors clearly want to avoid it.