From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, 10399@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10399: [PATCH] Document win32 font backends
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:48:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pqf5rmgc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EFEF4FA.4080701@dancol.org>
> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:41:46 -0800
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-31 11:48 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
2011-12-31 11:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-12-31 15:23 ` Óscar Fuentes
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