Re: [Mingw-users] Contributing GDI+ headers

[Mattia B. <mat...@li...>]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:29:29 +0200
Michael Gerdau <mg...@ti...> wrote:

> > > > I'm in the process of typing in GDI+ headers (at least enough
> > > > of it to compile wxWidgets' GDI+ support). I'm posting it first
> > > > here to avoid duplicating any effort.
> > > 
> > > Excellent!  I'm assuming that you are using publicly available sources
> > > only?
> > 
> >   As usual, I used the PSDK for function, struct and enum declarations.
> 
> Wrong answer !!!
> 
> The PSDK is *NOT* a publicly available source w/r to violating copyrights.
> 
> Read (or reread) the licence agreement that you acknowledged when you
> installed the PSDK on your machine. Last time I did this it clearly forbid
> the type of copying you did.

  I must have been clearer: I copied from the PSDK CHM documentation.

> > For missing enum values (e.g. PixelFormat) I used a small C program
> > printf()ing the values, as usual.
> 
> ???
> Why is this different from looking into the PSDK header files ?

  I used this for constant values in (some of) my past contributons
and they have been accepted.  I did not know there was
a policy change (or a license change in PSDK).

> >   Added to SF.net (1821362).  It is not complete, but good enough
> > for wxWidgets (and is something others can build on). 
> 
> ...and totally useless if not harmful for the sake of MinGW.
> 
> I'm sorry to say this but your efforts are totally wasted w/r to MinGW.
> 
> *Sigh*
> I wish people would actually try to read and understand the licences
> of the software they are using.

Regards,
Mattia