The VII PPPR (Pending Peeves Progress Review)

[Walter Bright]

"Sean Kelly" <sean at f4.ca> wrote in message 
news:dvs7u2$1fmf$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> Stewart Gordon wrote:
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>>
>> 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.

For gdc, and non-Digital Mars distributions, that's true. But for dmd, I do 
have a license from Microsoft on the windows header files.

But it would be better if the windows.d files are public domain, then 
there's no issue at all.