Re: Patch feedback requested for OleCreatePropertyFrame()

[Geoffrey Hausheer]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:39 AM, John Klehm wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Huw Davies  wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 03:00:12PM -0800, Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:
> > > I found a patch from 2001 written by TAKESHIMA Hidenori that
> > > was posted to wine-patches
> > > (http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2001-October/001229.html)
> > > but never committed.
> >
> > Actually it was commited (2843934af5515c7f2b8370324aa98d3964a40324)
> > but was then removed (140e7222e0d7ce76068cddc64c68105c2e569257) at
> > his request.
>
> In case anyone was just slightly less curious than me about it:
> http://www.winehq.org/wwn/122#Quartz.dll%20Removal

Thanks for turning that up.  I did look through the archives to see
what hapened, but aparently not hard enough.
So now the only solution appears to be to rewrite the code from
scratch.  The question is, can I do that now that I've looked over his
code?  It does turn this from a simple fix to a much more daunting
task.  There doesn't appear to be anything in this code that would be
patent encumbered, but the code itself certainly falls under
Hidenori's copyright which he has effectively revoked permission to
use.

.Geoff

Patch feedback requested for OleCreatePropertyFrame()

[Wolfram Sang]

> task.  There doesn't appear to be anything in this code that would be
> patent encumbered, but the code itself certainly falls under
> Hidenori's copyright which he has effectively revoked permission to
> use.

Strictly speaking, this is not possible. Although IANAL, this code is 
LGPL, so he can't revoke permission for this version of the code. He can 
ask to not use it, and this wish can be granted. You still should be 
allowed to pick it up. Next question is then, if a modified version will 
be picked up (still respecting the author's wish)? Or how much 
modifications are needed? Geez, such things are never trivial :(

Regards,

Wolfram