Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/02/20/11:13:09
On 20 Feb 1997, Ian Miller wrote:
> Is the Win32 API not itself under Microsoft copyright? I'm sure
> the Windows 95 licence agreement specifically excludes reverse
> engineering its code. Surely that in itself prevents anyone
> from porting the GNU tools to Win32 as free software.
FSF released their own, GPL'ed version of Win32 API, so it must be
possible, Microsoft lawyers notwithstanding.
> If not,
> where can I find a (on-line?) definition of the API and all the
> relevant file formats?
Try looking at the GNU version:
ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/windows32api-0.1.2.tar.gz
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