RE: Mingw win32 headers license

--- Patrik Stridvall <[email protected]> wrote:
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> In short:
> I think it is almost but not quite compatible.
> Why not ask the authors for explict permission?
> 
> In any case. Why do you want to incorparate the
> MINGW Win32 headers?

I want to fix bug 330 "Improve RichEdit headers". We
need richole.h and richedit.h headers for this.

> Headers in general have very little copyright since
> they
> are MUCH closer to facts than normal code.
> 
> Cuting and pasting a few function is not any problem
> as long
> as you remove formating and comments (especially
> expressive
> comments).

I guess I'll just take the information from the
headers, doing my own formatting and comments.

> There is script in the Wine tree (written by me)
> that does this already.
> 
> tools/winedump/function_grep.pl ''
> /usr/include/stdio.h
> 
> Note that it is quite slow and a little ad hoc.
> All header files might not work 100%.
> Please report any problems to me.
> 
> The output format in not perfect but you can pipe it
> to:
> 	perl -pe 's/^.*?:(.*?)$/$1;/'
> to make it better.

Patrik, thank you for help.

Andriy

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