Re: A copyright question to wine developpers

2012-07-27 Thread Christophe-Marie Duquesne
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Edward Savage epss...@gmail.com 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.

A copyright question to wine developpers

2012-06-11 Thread Christophe-Marie Duquesne
* different, but for the compiler, the API *needs* to be the same. Since you seem to have the same problem with wine (and you probably dealt with it succesfully), I wanted to ask you how you are solving this problem. Do you rewrite the headers? Do you copy them raw? Thank you, Christophe-Marie Duquesne

Re: A copyright question to wine developpers

2012-06-11 Thread Christophe-Marie Duquesne
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Ricardo Filipe ricardojdfil...@gmail.com 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%

Re: A copyright question to wine developpers

2012-06-11 Thread Christophe-Marie Duquesne
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Roderick Colenbrander thunderbir...@gmail.com 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.