I understand Microsoft is a big company and that this could have been externally contracted work, but someone dropped the ball during code review/licensing. publish the software for others to copy." Second, Microsoft glued in some of their own licensing terms, further restricting your rights to the software (TermsOfUse.rtf). Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool Item Preview There Is No Preview Available For This Item This item does not appear to have any files that can be experienced on. (I’m not a FSF professional, so there may be more.)įirst, Microsoft did not offer or provide source code for their modifications to ImageMaster nor their tool. (The author of the code was not contacted by Microsoft.) The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool allows you to make a copy of the Windows 7 ISO file to a USB flash drive or DVD. A simple search of some method names and properties, gleaned from Reflector’s output, revealed the source code was obviously lifted from the CodePlex-hosted (yikes) GPLv2-licensed ImageMaster project. When you are prompted to either save the file to disk or run it, choose Run. The Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool has been recognized as a good resource for installing Office 2013 ISO files from Microsoft.
Download the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool installation file from here.
WINDOWS 7 DVD TO USB DOWNLOAD TOOL INSTALL
As a first step, download and install the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from Microsoft. While poking through the UDF-related internals of the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, I had a weird feeling there was just wayyyyyyyyy too much code in there for such a simple tool. Download and Install Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. Rafael has written up a great post, with a side-by-side code comparison, about how Microsoft's Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool uses code that was obviously taken directly from open source code that is licensed under the GPL.
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