RE: Microsoft licenses for include files etc.?

> Wine project contains a lot of resources such as data 
> structures in its include
> file "include/winnt.h" or the general API knowledge in its .c 
> implementations.
> 
> Unfortunately Micorosoft licenses are usually very 
> restrictive for any possible
> 'redistribution' of their covered material. Where are those 
> resources from if
> they are legal at all? I would like to contribute to Wine but 
> I am scared of
> the possible law consequences.

I'm note sure what you are after. Wine does not use the
Microsoft headers so their license is irrelevant.

Sure we Wine developer READ the Microsoft headers and
then write our own headers based on the facts contained
in the headers.

Note that copyright doesn't protected facts
so the Wine header are not a derived work of the
Microsoft headers.