Re: Are some DDK Header files allowed to be distributed?

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From: TOM (noname_at_noprovider.nodomain)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:36:42 -0600

Well - I had read somewhere that some MS had a policy on some of the header
files,
but I am not able to find it anywhere by searching the website. That's why I
asked.

"nospam@cristalink.com" <cristalink@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:%23FHhIl3yEHA.2788@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> You've got some files you want to distribute. And these files are
> copyrighted and not yours. And you obtained them legally. Then you must
> have a License Agreement or a copyright notice related to the files. Read
> it. If you've got questions after reading, contact the copyright holder
> and ask them in an official way. Nobody here can give you a legal advice,
> rather their own opinion. Who knows on what terms you acquired those
> files.
>
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>
> "TOM" <noname@noprovider.nodomain> wrote in message
> news:uZhACY3yEHA.1192@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>I did not write a driver - only the application. The 3rd party driver
>>(Cypress EZUSB.SYS)
>> requires that my application fill out the low-level USB data structures
>> and pass a pointer
>> to it to the driver. The structures are complicated enough that they use
>> several DDK include files
>> (which in turn use other DDK include files) amounting to perhaps a
>> thousand lines or more of
>> header.
>>
>> So it does not seem practical to cobble together my own include file, and
>> I can't just make
>> simple ones for an API - because to write that API would require those
>> same DDK header
>> files.
>>
>> Has MS stated any policy?
>>
>> -- Tom
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Doron Holan [MS]" <doronh@nospam.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23Sl3hYqyEHA.1392@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>>> if your customers are going to be writing drivers, wouldn't they need
>>> the ddk to do that?
>>>
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>>> "nospam@cristalink.com" <cristalink@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
>>> news:O4UfBWpyEHA.3024@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>>>> You should read the End User License Agreement. As far as I remember,
>>>> it doesn't allow redistribution of the headers.
>>>>
>>>> Can't you supply your own headers?
>>>> Can't your customers afford DDK for $30?
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Tom" <noname@noprovider.nodomain> wrote in message
>>>> news:ebuiCBpyEHA.4044@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>>>> I've developed some USB devices that use a 3rd party device driver
>>>>> for low-level USB calls. In order to call that driver, I use some of
>>>>> the
>>>>> DDK headers pertaining to low-level USB structure definitions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now that the DDK is no longer available on the MS website, is
>>>>> there a policy regarding which ones can be distributed? Are there
>>>>> some DDK headers that can be distributed, or are all of them
>>>>> off-limits?
>>>>>
>>>>> If none can be distributed, then it's impossible for others to compile
>>>>> my application (not driver) code unless they have purchased the DDK.
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Tom
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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