Re: [ossig] Secret Windows Code Leaked On Internet

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Uwe Dippel wrote:

> If you get access to the leaked code, that wouldn't help you out of
> trouble whenever you write a program using THIS_SECRET_API_CALL. Ask a

i believe imran was referring to taking portions of the leaked source and
using it in an open source project, not necessarily using it on the
windows platform per se. in the latter scenario, microsoft may hit you
with their anti-reverse engineering provisions part of the EULA.

> lawyer, I doubt that insight obtained illegally can later be used to set
> up your business.

proof has to be rock solid for this, and with the exception of the
programmer making the silly mistake of cut-n-paste, there is no violation.
the samba team has been reverse engineering the network file share
protocols until the recent CIFS ban on reverse engineering.

obviously, to be _absolutely_ sure, you'd need to clean room any
implementation, but in reality this is harder done than said.

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