On 10/15/2015 9:07 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
In this particular case though, since the headers are in the public domain, it really shouldn't matter what happens with the Oracle case. And while MS has done plenty of stupid and/or evil stuff over the years, I don't think that they're anywhere near stupid enough to go after anyone for creating bindings to their APIs and actually trying to use them. They _want_ you to use them, because they want you to use their products and to write software for their products. So, I really don't think that we have anything to fear here. - Jonathan M Davis
I'd really like to see a trace of the history of those headers to make sure they're _really_ in the public domain. I have doubts that microsoft ever declared that in headers they released and that someone else just copied (or transcribed) the apis and declared them to be in the public domain.
