Wie schon im Betreff angegeben: Nun gibt es auch eine offizielle deutschsprachige Seite, die sich mit dem PE-Builder vom guten Bart Lagerweij befasst. Natürlich wird auch eine deutsche Fassung des Tools dort angeboten.
Hier geht es zu deutschen "PE-Builder-Seite: KLICK.
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While I was already thinking about what great things this could do, I noticed the end-user license agreement for Microsoft software that is included with Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) 1.2 (eula.txt). In section "1. ELIGIBILITY." it states the following:
..."You may only install and use the SOFTWARE PRODUCT if you are an active Microsoft Software Assurance Member ("SAM") for the systems product pool or servers product pool, if you currently have license coverage for Microsoft Windows operating system (OS) Upgrades via a Campus Agreement or School Agreement, or if you are a current or former participant in the Windows XP Joint Development Program, Windows XP Rapid Adoption Program, Windows .NET Server Joint Development Program, or Windows .NET Server Rapid Adoption Program. If you do not meet one or more of the requirements listed above, you may not install or use this SOFTWARE PRODUCT and you must terminate the installation of this SOFTWARE PRODUCT immediately"...
Oops, that does not include me. As a matter a fact that does not include most of us! This was very disappointing. But then I started thinking, how difficult can it be to build something simular to Windows PE from a Windows XP installation CD-Rom? A quick file compare looked like most of the needed files are on the Windows XP CD-Rom. Only because I thought building this was easy, I started coding my own builder program. Had I knew how hard it would be, I would probably never start programming PE Builder.
This first version (v1.0.0) of PE Builder was released on April 28, 2003. Yes, version 1 was a very simple, very static, very bad and copyright violating program. And the (very friendly) people at Microsoft had every right to kick my butt. But I learned from it and in May 2003 I started on a second version. In July (three months later) v2 was ready.
Ich verstehe das so, das er sich anfänglich recht großzügig bei Microsofts Windows PE bedient hat, um sein Programm zu erstellen. Mit der Version 2 hat Bart seinen eigenen Weg gefunden und hat sich so offenbar mit MS arrangieren können.