[Spice-devel] [PATCH win-vdagent] Provide support for Windows CCD API

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Wed Aug 3 10:19:17 UTC 2016


On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 05:25:59AM -0400, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> 
> > Can you please further explain regarding the licensing? which license should
> > be used?
> 
> These defines came from Microsoft headers or from the web like 
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff548113(v=vs.85).aspx 
> simply you can't copy from header (which have its license) and/or from web 
> (see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/copyright/default.aspx ) 
> 
> Not sure about the license. Looks like Mingw headers have public domain licensing. 
> For instance https://searchcode.com/codesearch/raw/11987244/ have a Microsoft disclaimer. 
> 
> Maybe I'm too overcautious 

I don't think you are being too caution, either these definitions have
an explicit licence compatible with the vdagent-win one, or we should
not copy them this way. Why do we need to copy these definitions in
vdagent-win in the first place?

Christophe
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