Re: A copyright question to wine developpers

[Ricardo Filipe]

2012/6/11 Michael Stefaniuc :
> 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.