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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: COMScope Released for Win32
Date: 1999/04/28
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In article <7g76j7$5sb$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  dbotton@hotmail.com wrote:
> In article <7g6vmg$23$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
>   Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
>
> > 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 :-)
> >
> I am not a lawyer, but I don't see why the generated bindings would not be
> freely distributed also.

I suspect a very careful reading of the licensing agreement that came with
the DLL's (presumably, the licensing agreement for your version of Windows)
and with the type library (Windows, or Visual C++?) would tell you that.

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