Yet another effort at translating the Win32 API headers

[Kyle Furlong]

J C Calvarese wrote:
> In article <e0cf4q$mu3$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Kyle Furlong says...
>> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>>> This project is now officially based on the public domain MinGW headers. 
>>>  I've translated a few more of the files on this basis, and rewritten 
>>> the instructions to make more sense to a translation from C headers.
>>>
>>> I've also set up a page on Wiki4D to coordinate the project:
>>>
>>> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?WindowsAPI
>>>
>>> Now, who's going to contribute?
>>>
>>> In line with comments from various people including Walter, my plan is 
>>> for the work to be public domain.  Is this OK with everyone?
> ..
>> Its probably legally better to offer it under one of the freest licenses (MIT, >BSD, libpng, etc.)
> 
> What's freer than releasing it as public domain? Public domain would be my
> preference if it were my choice.
> 
> jcc7

The problem with releasing anything into the public domain is that eventually it becomes ambiguous that it IS public domain. 
People drop the work anywhere and however they please, and somewhere down the line someone asks, "Hey what is the licensing of 
such and such." If the project is inactive its easy for this ambiguity to arise. Thus, having an explicit license which 
stipulates that use of the work is completely free, and that copies of the license must be distributed with the work avoid this.