On Sunday, November 25, 2012 10:38:36 Vladimir Panteleev wrote: > Copyright? Last I checked almost all files, except the WinSock > ones, are explicitly specified to be in the public domain. Please > clarify?
That's certainly what I remember. What's always confused me though is that I've heard that you can't copy from Microsoft's headers because of the copyright on them, but I have no idea where on earth anyone could ever have gotten any Windows headers except from Microsoft. But given that I've heard it disputed that you can even truly copyright headers in the first place (since they're essentially an API rather than an implementation), I really don't know what the legal situation with all of this is. However, many of the mingw headers definitely are definitely in the public domain from what I recall. - Jonathan M Davis
