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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: Question about WineX licences
From:       Mike McCormack <mike () codeweavers ! com>
Date:       2003-09-30 22:13:04
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My guess is that Transgaming has signed an NDA with one or more of the 
companies that write copy protection schemes for games (eg. Safedisk), 
and is not even able to discuss what is required to make such hooks in 
Wine, or how to change the build procedure to make it possible for the 
scheme to work.

Mike


> Your argument is valid right now because there was not attempt
> to abstract the copy protection through some kind of interface.
> We've had this discussion before, and Alexandre was willing to
> accommodate such hooks, but the argument was put forward that
> this is not possible. I simply do not believe you can't abstract
> it, anything can be. One reason why you may not want to is that
> you may be afraid that if people see the interface, they will
> figure out how to write their own copy-protection code. But this
> is a business, rather then a technical or legal reason...


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