The new core.sys.windows

Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Oct 15 18:10:39 PDT 2015


On 10/15/2015 9:07 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:

> In this particular case though, since the headers are in the public
> domain, it really shouldn't matter what happens with the Oracle case.
> And while MS has done plenty of stupid and/or evil stuff over the years,
> I don't think that they're anywhere near stupid enough to go after
> anyone for creating bindings to their APIs and actually trying to use
> them. They _want_ you to use them, because they want you to use their
> products and to write software for their products. So, I really don't
> think that we have anything to fear here.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I'd really like to see a trace of the history of those headers to make 
sure they're _really_ in the public domain.  I have doubts that 
microsoft ever declared that in headers they released and that someone 
else just copied (or transcribed) the apis and declared them to be in 
the public domain.


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