Re: ddraw.h, dinput.h and dsound.h in Cygwin/MinGW

Alexandre Julliard <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:01:44 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.wine.license
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Danny Smith <[email protected]> writes:

> Anyways, how does L(=Library)GPL work for interfaces into proprietary,
> closed-source libraries?  It doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

I don't think it matters at all in this case, since you are clearly
not distributing the Microsoft dlls, and the MS dlls could hardly be
considered a derivative work of the Wine headers. So the LGPL doesn't
affect the dlls at all, only the headers.

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Alexandre Julliard
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