That's great. Thank you very much!

Luca

Il gio 30 lug 2020, 14:07 Liu Hao <[email protected]> ha scritto:

> 在 2020/7/30 下午4:34, Luca Bacci 写道:
> > Hi, I'm contributing some Windows-specific code to a cross-platform OSS
> > project. This project is licensed under the LGPL. Because the code I'm
> > contributing uses some newer windows API only introduced since Windows 8,
> > and because the project must continue to compile with older compiler
> > toolchains (MS Visual Studio 2008, older mingw-w64 distributions), I
> > thought about copying all the necessary winapi type declarations (all
> from
> > winuser.h).
> >
> > From a licensing perspective, is it possible to copy a small part of the
> > mingw-w64 winapi headers in a LGPL project?
> >
> >
>
> winuser.h contains a notice that references DISCLAIMER at top level, which
> indicates ZPL 2.1.
>
> As such:
>
> 0) You shall comply with 1, 2, 3 and 4 of ZPL 2.1. This usually means you
> should convey a copy of contents of DISCLAIMER.
> 1) You may copy such code into your project, under the same license or
> under LGPL. In the latter case, it does not
>    prevent other people from copying your copy and re-license it under the
> old license, however.
> 2) According to 5, if you make modifications to them, you shall add
> notices for your modifications. You may license
>    them under LGPL, but this license doesn't cover code that you haven't
> modified.
>
> There are also numerous headers with a different notice which states they
> are 'placed in the Public Domain'. You may copy or
> relicense these files at your disposal.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> LH_Mouse
>
>

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