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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: COMScope Released for Win32
Date: 1999/04/30
Date: 1999-04-30T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7gda7d$iuj$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3727366A.AF688F45@Botton.com

In article <3727366A.AF688F45@Botton.com>,
  David Botton <David@Botton.com> wrote:
> I imagine there possibly might be restrictions on the .tlb file
> itself, but just like creating a .lib or lib*.a file from a DLL for a
> compiler, there should be no restrictions on a file produced from a
> tlb.

I would not count on this legal interpretation! It is pretty clear
that the file produced from the tlb file is a derived work, just as
the Ada binding to Win32 is a derived work, and I am sure Microsoft
would claim copyright on it, just as they do on the Ada binding.

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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-04-28  0:00 COMScope Released for Win32 David Botton
1999-04-28  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28  0:00   ` Tom Moran
1999-04-28  0:00     ` David Botton
1999-04-30  0:00       ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-04-28  0:00   ` dbotton
1999-04-28  0:00     ` dennison
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