What on earth is std.windows.d?

[jcc7]

In article <du9s34$egk$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Stewart Gordon says...
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>Don Clugston wrote:
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>> I believe that legal issues prevent redistribution of the Windows SDK, 
>> but at least we could use the public domain files from the w32api project?
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>> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/mingw/w32api/#dirlist
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>I'm a little puzzled over the whole licensing issue.

Me, too.

>What are the Windows headers that come with DMC, for that matter?

I think that Walter asked for special permission from Microsoft to do that. For
our D ports, I'd rather use a free version that was developed by a black-box
method (i.e. mingw) than officially ask for permission from Microsoft to use
theirs.

>And how much can we do that counts as fair use, anyway?

I'm not a lawyer, but I think "fair use" requires that we only use a small
excerpt (and we basically use all of it even if it's converted by automation).
So I don't think we should be using Microsoft's header (even though that's what
many of us have been doing. But the legal issues aren't clear to me, so I'm not
sure.

jcc7