On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Edward Savage wrote:
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/05/31/237208/judge-rules-apis-can-not-be-copyrighted
>
> Have you considered talking to your local version of the EFF?
>
> Edward
>
Thank you for your kind advice, and for the link you provided. I'll
consid
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Roderick Colenbrander
wrote:
> Have a look at what Google does for the Linux headers in Android. They
> essentially process them with a script and remove comments, inline
> functions and other stuff. There have been various articles about it.
> Look at the argument
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Ricardo Filipe
> wrote:
>> yeah, what happens is the header is reimplemented, not simply
>> copy-pasted from Windows.
>> Even if the API is not copyrighted, the header contents still are.
>>
>
> W
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Ricardo Filipe
wrote:
> yeah, what happens is the header is reimplemented, not simply
> copy-pasted from Windows.
> Even if the API is not copyrighted, the header contents still are.
>
Well if you rewrite a header such that it is 100% compatible with an
API (which
2012/6/11 Michael Stefaniuc :
> Hello!
>
> On 06/11/2012 10:54 AM, Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote:
>> To my understanding, wine is a reimplementation of the MS system. As
>> far as I understand, you take MS public headers and reimplement their
>> functions. If that is how it works, then how do you
Hello!
On 06/11/2012 10:54 AM, Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote:
> To my understanding, wine is a reimplementation of the MS system. As
> far as I understand, you take MS public headers and reimplement their
> functions. If that is how it works, then how do you deal with
> copyright? The MS headers
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To my understanding, wine is a reimplementation of the MS system. As
> far as I understand, you take MS public headers and reimplement their
> functions. If that is how it works, then how do you deal with
> copyright? The
Hi,
To my understanding, wine is a reimplementation of the MS system. As
far as I understand, you take MS public headers and reimplement their
functions. If that is how it works, then how do you deal with
copyright? The MS headers certainly come with a copyright clause: how
is it possible to redis
