The VII PPPR (Pending Peeves Progress Review)

[Stewart Gordon]

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(++).

Stewart.

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