2012/6/11 Michael Stefaniuc <mstef...@redhat.com>: > 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 certainly come with a copyright clause: how >> is it possible to redistribute these headers with wine? > The Windows headers are copyrighted and Wine cannot redistribute those. > Wine provides its own headers. > > bye > michael > >
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.