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From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, 10399@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10399: [PATCH] Document win32 font backends
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:41:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EFEF4FA.4080701@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ty4hrnn8.fsf@gnu.org>

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On 12/31/11 3:22 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If a MinGW build of Emacs can use DirectWrite, and if there will be no
> copyright issues with providing the missing headers and interface
> libraries, then feel free to work on adding DirectWrite support to
> Emacs.  Thanks in advance.

What exactly is the legal situation surrounding headers? 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?


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-31 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-29 14:06 bug#10399: [PATCH] Document win32 font backends Daniel Colascione
2011-12-29 16:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-12-29 16:57   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-29 17:16     ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-31 10:56       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-31 11:04         ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-31 11:22           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-31 11:41             ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2011-12-31 11:48               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-31 15:23               ` Óscar Fuentes

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