From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10399: [PATCH] Document win32 font backends Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:48:35 +0200 Message-ID: <83pqf5rmgc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <24726464e3220fa8654e52357dfd56ab2d5bdb43.1325166907.git.dancol@dancol.org> <83pqf7uxhp.fsf@gnu.org> <4EFCA060.9000002@dancol.org> <83vcoxrouh.fsf@gnu.org> <4EFEEC4A.2010502@dancol.org> <83ty4hrnn8.fsf@gnu.org> <4EFEF4FA.4080701@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325332211 3111 80.91.229.12 (31 Dec 2011 11:50:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:50:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, 10399@debbugs.gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 31 12:50:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RgxRv-0007h9-9J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:50:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45453 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgxRu-0000nd-QS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:50:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44423) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgxRr-0000ly-7S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:50:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgxRq-0001Uw-7a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:50:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:59714) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgxRq-0001Ur-3d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:50:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RgxUk-00055b-6D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:53:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:53:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10399 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 10399-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10399.132533233419504 (code B ref 10399); Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:53:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10399) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 Dec 2011 11:52:14 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RgxTx-00054X-L6 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:52:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RgxTu-00054F-Sg for 10399@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:52:11 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LX200L00FP8P800@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 10399@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:48:37 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.18.76]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LX200I25GSWY321@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:48:33 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <4EFEF4FA.4080701@dancol.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:53:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:55336 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:41:46 -0800 > From: Daniel Colascione > CC: lekktu@gmail.com, 10399@debbugs.gnu.org > > What exactly is the legal situation surrounding headers? Sorry, I have no idea. I was wondering about that myself. > Would copying and modifying declarations from the Microsoft headers > or MSDN be acceptable, considering that there is really only one way > to describe what a function is called and what parameters it takes? > If not, how exactly would one create untainted declarations? One way of finding out the answers would be to ask how MinGW (or is it Cygwin?) produces the headers in the w32api distribution, and how they avoid the copyright issues when they do.