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

From: Bill McKenzie (bill.mckenzie_at_nospam.conexant.com)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 01:19:35 -0600

Either:

A) Morph the structures into your own structures for use in your app

B) Require the DDK to build your app

C) Isolate all of the DDK dependent code in a prebuilt binary such as a DLL,
or lib.

or

D) Come up with something equally or more creative

The license agreement for the DDK ships with the DDK. You agreed to it if
you installed a DDK. It would not matter what MS said anywhere else. You
need to read the agreement that shipped with the DDK(s) you installed. 

-- 
Bill McKenzie
Software Engineer - Prism 802.11 Wireless Solutions
Conexant Systems, Inc.
"TOM" <noname@noprovider.nodomain> wrote in message
news:O$7U0y3yEHA.3624@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> 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.
> >
> > -- 
> > http://www.firestreamer.com - NTBACKUP to DVD and DV
> >
> >
> > "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?
> >>>
> >>> -- 
> >>> Please do not send e-mail directly to this alias. this alias is for
> >>> newsgroup purposes only.
> >>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> >>> rights.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> "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?
> >>>>
> >>>> -- 
> >>>> http://www.firestreamer.com - NTBACKUP to DVD and DV
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> "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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