From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2e89b29097cc3432 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dbotton@hotmail.com Subject: Re: COMScope Released for Win32 Date: 1999/04/28 Message-ID: <7g76j7$5sb$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 471881975 References: <37269760.823D47F1@Botton.com> <7g6vmg$23$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x3.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 199.227.148.101 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Apr 28 14:39:35 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (Win98; I) Date: 1999-04-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7g6vmg$23$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, Robert Dewar wrote: > Note that if indeed a binding can be generated > automatically, that solves the copyright problem. The > current Win32 bindings are copyright Microsoft, and cannot > be freely copied. However, a program that generates > bindings can be freely distributed (if the author so > decides :-) > The author plans on it :-) I am not a lawyer, but I don't see why the generated bindings would not be freely distributed also. The win32 type library contains bindings to almost all of win32, but there are some pieces missing. They include the C run time bindings (MSCRT), OpenGL, windows versions of printf and scanf, and the base Co* functions for COM (although it does contain bindings for the other parts of COM and OLE). Most of the other missing parts are COM/OLE related services from Microsoft and bindings can be generated directly from their dlls, OCXs, tlbs, etc. (For example to generate a binding to DAO, you would run the binding generator on DAO3032.dll or for MSMQ mqoa.dll). Since there is documentation embedded in the type libraries, the bindings will also be well documented, another plus over the current bindings. David Botton -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own