The new core.sys.windows

Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Oct 15 09:18:53 PDT 2015


On Thursday, 15 October 2015 at 08:25:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/15/2015 1:18 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> I'd opt to Boost all the way down. I'm not really a lawyer nor 
>> do I have
>> a problem with public domain.
>
> Since Windows headers are just lists of declarations, I don't 
> even think they are copyrightable. To the extent that they are, 
> we should use Boost all the way. And yes, the reason we have 
> been using Boost at all is because public domain is not 
> recognized in some jurisdictions. I would have preferred to 
> make it all public domain.
>
> Boost is the best license we could find that was both widely 
> recognized and used, and was closest to public domain in effect.

I updated the PR and changed the license to Boost. I think the PR 
is ready for merging.


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