The VII PPPR (Pending Peeves Progress Review)

[Sean Kelly]

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>>>
>>> And the issue of translating the Windows API headers has cropped up 
>>> again.  There have been a number of efforts to do this, but they all 
>>> have their imperfections as far as I can tell.  I've started another 
>>> effort that'll hopefully be the best of them all....
>>>
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D.announce/3194
>>
>> For Windows headers to be included in a standard library distribution, 
>> they *must* be based on public domain header files.  As much as I'd 
>> love improved Windows functionality, I won't include headers in Ares 
>> that violate the MS copyright, and I think Walter feels the same for 
>> Phobos.
> 
> I heard Don the first time.  That's why I stated in that thread that 
> anyone is more than welcome to use MinGW or similar to contribute to my 
> effort.
> 
> I still don't get the whole M$ copyright issue.  It's as if M$ was 
> trying to stop anybody from programming in anything but C(++).

I agree that it's completely silly, but we must assume that it could 
happen.  I'm certainly not willing to pay the legal fees to fight MS in 
court, and neither do I want to be forced to strip modules out of the 
library later on and possibly be forced to take production code offline 
until a suitable replacement could be found.


Sean