The VII PPPR (Pending Peeves Progress Review)

[Walter Bright]

"Georg Wrede" <georg.wrede at nospam.org> wrote in message 
news:44241111.8040701 at nospam.org...
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> But it would be better if the windows.d files are public domain, then
>>  there's no issue at all.
> IMHO, it would be appropriate if DMD used "genuine" M$ headers, and GDC 
> used PD headers. After all, DMD is a closed-source product, and it comes 
> from an established, single vendor. (So what, if it's free as in beer.) 
> DMD is also the Official D compiler, as in credibility with the suits.

I've been redoing many of the Phobos imports as public domain, especially 
ones that are just interfaces to C code, and I don't see any credibility 
problems with it.