Develop .h for Wine by looking Microsoft Platform SDK

King InuYasha ngompa13 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 18:00:54 CST 2007


It is not legal at all. Using Microsoft Platform SDK header code is not
under the GNU General Public License version 2.0 or its listed compatible
licenses, so you have to do it manually WITHOUT looking at the PSDK. I
recommend removing the PSDK from your system as a way to remove temptation.

On Nov 6, 2007 1:21 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles at elpauer.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> How legal (if at all) would be to develop a header file by looking
> reading the corresponding header file from the Microsoft Platform SDK
> and adapting it to gcc (removing MSVC stuff, etc)?
>
> I'm interested in supporting annotations[*] and before I start
> deducting everything from MSDN documentation, I'd like to know if
> there is a fast track.
>
> [*] More information:
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383701.aspx
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235402(VS.80).aspx<http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235402%28VS.80%29.aspx>
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Pau Garcia i Quiles
> http://www.elpauer.org
> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
>
>
>
>
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