wescheng@hpcc01.HP.COM (Wesley Cheng) (10/24/90)
I got word that the MSW 3.0 font file format can be found in the "DDK" from Microsoft. Can anybody tell me what this DDK is? We would like to order it. Please send me e-mail or reply to this note if you have the part number, name, and price of this beast. Thanks Wesley Cheng wescheng@hpcc01.corp.hp.com
wescheng@hpcc01.HP.COM (Wesley Cheng) (10/25/90)
/ hpcc01:comp.windows.ms / wescheng@hpcc01.HP.COM (Wesley Cheng) / 8:20 am Oct 24, 1990 / Thanks to all who replied to me. Here's the complete info for anyone else interested: Microsoft Windows 3.0 Device Drivers Developer Kit (DDK) part no: 003-150v300 tel: 1 (800) 426-9400, Sales and Service price: $500.00 Wesley Cheng wescheng@hpcc01.corp.hp.com "This is a public service announcement, no money exchanged hands for this message; really..."
jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) (10/25/90)
In a recent article wescheng@hpcc01.HP.COM (Wesley Cheng) writes: >I got word that the MSW 3.0 font file format can be found in the "DDK" >from Microsoft. Can anybody tell me what this DDK is? It's the Device Driver Kit. I don't have the flyer for it handy, but memory puts the price at $550 or so from uSoft. An order blank comes as part of the SDK. I haven't seen it advertised from any of the mail order houses (can anyone in NetLand correct this?), so you have to pay uSoft's list price and order direct. A recent posting on usenet stated that the license for the DDK included a what's-yours-belongs-to-Microsoft clause which purportedly requires you to give any source you develop to Microsoft. This *sounds* a little unlikely even for this lawyer-infested industry, but I don't have the DDK, and haven't seen any followup postings on the net. Again, can anyone reading this newsgroup provide additional info? Joe Morris
ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg) (10/30/90)
In article <124420@linus.mitre.org> jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes:
A recent posting on usenet stated that the license for the DDK included
a what's-yours-belongs-to-Microsoft clause which purportedly requires you
to give any source you develop to Microsoft. This *sounds* a little
unlikely even for this lawyer-infested industry, but I don't have the
DDK, and haven't seen any followup postings on the net. Again, can
anyone reading this newsgroup provide additional info?
I called Microsoft, and was told that the DDK license agreement is the
same as for other single-user product, such as C or the SDK. The relevant
passage is:
"5. LANGUAGE SOFTWARE. If the SOFTWARE is a Microsoft language product, then
you have a royalty-free right to reproduce and distribute executable files
created using the SOFTWARE." [Additional clauses about BASIC and COBOL
omitted.]
I am not a lawyer, but this sounds pretty clear to me. I assume that the DDK
is in fact a language product; the term is not defined in the license
agreement.
There is also this statement in the DDK Installation and Update Guide, chapter
6: "The sources in this DDK are provided for your development use. You should
use the sources provided as a code base or as examples of how you should
structure your driver." Similar statements are scattered throughout the DDK
documentation. In the appendix on distributing the driver, no mention is made
of providing Microsoft with a copy of the driver or anything like that.
It seems abundantly clear to me that Microsoft intends for DDK licensees to
modify the samples provided, compile them with the tools provided, and
distribute the results to Windows retail licensees without royalties or
cross-licenses. If there is reason to believe otherwise, I'd love to hear
it, provided it's more substantial than the rumor above.