Re: win32ada with Object Ada

["Pascal Obry" <pascal.obry@der.edfgdf.fr>]

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I have made modifications to the Win32Ada binding for GNAT 3.09 and
GNAT 3.10 (a prerealease not yet publicly released). I could distribute a
patch if you are interested.

The only question is "have I the right to distribute a patch ?" Looking at
the copyright it seem that I can't, what do you think :

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It say that it may be used only by licensees of Microsoft Corporation's
WIN32 Software Development Kit. With GNAT 3.09 it is possible to use
the binding without the Microsoft librairies... so it seem that this
copyright
forbid this kind of use and that you must buy the SKD to use it !

Is my understanding right ?

Pascal.
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