[Wine] Re: how did wine devs get some values in winbase.h ?

vitamin wineforum-user at winehq.org
Wed Sep 10 14:35:56 CDT 2008


vtorri wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I'm using mingw on Windows for compilation of linux programs and there is a value that is missing in the mingw winbase.h header file: FILE_MAP_EXECUTE
> 
> the wine winbase.h file has that value, but mingw devs can't copy it because of the licence used in wine.
> 
> So my question is : where do wine devs get these numbers ?


They most likely came from SDK/DDK. There are no license problems if you don't "copy" but "re-type" the same thing. Public API is not patentable.







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