[ros-kernel] Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] FW: [ros-dev] headers suggestion

[Steven Edwards]

Hi Earnie,

--- Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> I am willing to help choose or craft a license other than PD but we
> must
> make it clear that the use of the headers and import libraries do not
> infringe on others rights to use some other license for their own
> source. 
> Due to the stigma many have of GPL, neither GPL or LGPL will be used.

The issue is not one of the license in fact I like the public domain
license. The issue is that I have had some of the Wine developers to
relicense headers in the past as PD only to have them be rejected due
to the fact that the interfaces were only documented inside of a
Microsoft SDK rather than directly published on MSDN. The example I
gave was the FDI/FCI headers I submitted last year. They were not
documented except in the cabinet SDK and were rejected from w32api. 

MSDN has now published the cabinet specs directly on the website so
those headers can now be merged. My concern is that MSDN has been known
to be wrong quite a few times and if I have another source (Wine
Project) that proves something in MSDN might be wrong then under the
current rules my change would still be rejected by w32api.

Thanks
Steven


		
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