[PATCH] include: Add dxcore.idl.

[Austin English]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 2:15 AM Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> > Am 25.06.2022 um 08:47 schrieb Charles Davis <cdavis5x at gmail.com>:
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 12:36 AM Biswapriyo Nath <nathbappai at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thank you for the review. I copied it from dxcore.h[1]. I have
> >> attached the updated patch.
> >>
> >> [1]:
> https://github.com/microsoft/DirectX-Headers/blob/main/include/directx/dxcore.h
> >
> > Ah, so it is under an open-source license compatible with ours. I was
> > concerned you might have copy-pasted out of a header with a more
> > restrictive license. (Even if it were Apache, for example, that would
> > cause legal problems, because that license infamously *isn't*
> > compatible with the GPLv2.) Sorry about that.
>
> At very least the Microsoft Corp copyright line should be retained in this
> case.
>
> The dos and don'ts of writing headers have always been tricky and
> frustrating.
>

Not trying to 'volunteer' you for this (I think the default person for that
is jwhite ;) ) but sounds like a great chance to discuss/clarify/document
this.


> I think this is the first case where we have the luxury of a
> license-compatible header from Microsoft.
>

FYI, several things have been open sourced with compatible licenses
recently. I.e., a search on github shows 1000+ projects with MIT licenses
from Microsoft:
https://github.com/orgs/microsoft/repositories?q=license%3Amit

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-Austin
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