[gmpi] Re: low level API
- From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 00:14:25 +0000
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 04:54:13 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> I think we may have made a mistake in our reasoning during the
> requirements gathering. The focus was indeed on legal issues, but
> AFAIR, mostly related to copy protection. What we did not notice was
> that we can make the requirement "It must be possible to retrieve
> metadata about the plugin without triggering any copy protection
> and/or licensing checks". This recognizes the fundamental and critical
> distinction between instantiating a plugin (at which time, the plugin
> vendor is free to throw in hooks to do copy protection/license
> checking if they choose to) and metadata querying, when they are not.
That is only possible if the metadata si got by calling some function, you
cant pull chunks of data out of the DLL under the GPL, for example.
- Steve
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