Re: [ros-kernel] Use or not use

[Robert K. <ro...@ko...>]

I think there is a passus that restricts the use of the files to only
_MS_-windows developement

Since this header is exchangeable and its use is not forbidden (until now),
I'll use it for now.

Casper Hornstrup schrieb:

> man, 2002-05-27 kl. 10:15 skrev Jason Filby:
> > This actually opens a wider discussion about header files and
> > copyright in general. The only choice we really have is to go ahead
> > and use the header file information. Copy and paste doesn't make a
> > difference - since any kind of transformation still violates
> > copyright - even if you retype everything, it's still transformation.
> > We will just have to, if the time comes, defend our right to use
> > header file information for the sake of compatibility. Here's a paper
> > related to this point of view:
> >
> > http://eu.conecta.it/paper/Open_source_copyright_law.html
> >
> > My opinion at least (and the author of the paper).
> >
> > - Jason
>
> I hope that last sentence is correct; that header files are not
> completely copyrightable. Next month, I will be contributing a free
> Windows XP DDK to MinGW which is mostly copy/pasted from the Windows DDK
> documentation. Unfortunatly, some needed structures are not documented
> in the Windows DDK documentation. There are three cases: 1) The
> structures are not mentioned in the Windows DDK documentation, only in
> the header files. I have left most of these out since they are usually
> not important. 2) The structures are mentioned in the Windows DDK
> documentation, but only referenced by name from other structures. I have
> included these, copy/pasted them from the header files. 3) Microsoft
> seems to have a policy that constants are only mentioned by name in the
> Windows DDK documentation, and they are defined in the header files, so
> I have copy/pasted them from there.
> The Windows DDK documentation explicitly states that you may not copy
> any information in it without permission, but they will probably just
> state this in order to keep us from trying.
>
> - Casper
>
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