Re: Support for serial console on legacy free machines

From: Khalid Aziz (khalid@fc.hp.com)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 12:49:33 EST


Simon Richter wrote:
>
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Khalid Aziz wrote:
>
> > The bummer is this table was designed by Microsoft and
> > Microsoft owns the copyright on it.
>
> This is an interface definition IMHO, so you cannot copyright it. But
> IANAL.
>
> Simon
>

That is a legal issue and I am not quite ready to go to battle with
Microsoft over a legal issue :-) From what I can see, the table
definition comes with a Microsoft copyright and terms of use license.

-- 
Khalid

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