The Wine C runtime is updated to support linking to MinGW-compiledīinaries it is used by default instead of the MinGW runtime when Process that will continue during the Wine 5.x development series. Not all modules have been converted to PE yet this is an ongoing
Modules that have been converted to PE can use standard wide-char Cįunctions, as well as wide-char character constants like L"abc".
Windows installation, at the cost of some extra disk space. This makes the prefix look more like a real The actual PE binaries are copied into the Wine prefix instead of That the on-disk and in-memory contents of system modules are This helps various copy protection schemes that check Windows binary format) instead of ELF when the MinGW compiler isĪvailable. Most modules are built in PE format (Portable Executable, the The "builtin modules in PE format" are a pretty big deal IMHO, and something of a hidden transition. Posted 10:50 UTC (Fri) by pixelpapst (subscriber, #55301) Being complacent is just going to make it easier to steal the public domain from us. Which is a reason why we need to not say "it may as well be infinite." It's a reason for us to say "getting these things into the public domain is awesome, and we're ready and willing to make a huge fuss about it." It's reason to loudly remind the world that Pinocchio was published in 1884, less than 60 years before Disney appropriated it, and it's about time we get to use Disney's version. So, yeah, I think there's going to be a try for another extension. Then Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Dumbo will go, and not too long after Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, etc. On the other hand, in 2033, Snow White will go into the public domain, followed by the movies Gone With the Wind, and the Wizard of Oz in 2035, all of which have current value, unlike Steamboat Willie. It's not like Steamboat Willie really matters Mickey is protected by trademark, still has copyrights on more recent forms, and has value as a mascot more than a character. If Disney really wanted another copyright extension before 2024, they wouldn't have waited until now to start on it, and there's not a whisper of such a proposal. It'd have to go through Congress, unlike net neutrality, and Congress right now would have trouble passing anything, especially with the amount of blowback a copyright extension would get.
The information above is not legal advice: if you want that then consult a lawyer who knows about this area. Thus copying data from a DVD into memory inside a DVD player is never copyright violation. Acts like implementing a key compatible programs on something a vendor does not support are specifically permitted.Īlso note that copyright law actually grants people some rights, for example any act of copying which is part of normally experiencing something. Note that the EU does have "look and feel" copyright which, while it has some limitations, might be usable by sufficiently creative lawyers. Implementations of an API are protected and those who gain traction have the advantage that their version reaches the market first. In the EU an API is one a list of things which are specifically not subject to copyright, period. However copyright term is very long and subject to extension when a major corporation risks something valuable becoming freely available (e.g. In the UK I believe that peter pan has no expiry date but everything else does. Copyright *does* have an expiry date, with very few exceptions.