Re: Accessibility in GTK+ under Windows - licensing question

[Dieter Verfaillie <dieterv optionexplicit be>]

On 18/04/2012 19:19, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 20:50 +0900, Evgeniy Philippov wrote:
> > Evgeniy wrote:
> > > <...>  Is this possible? My concern is this WSDK EULA.
> >
> > Jernej Simončič wrote:
> > > The VirtIO drivers for Qemu-KVM build with the Windows Driver Kit, and they
> > > include the following in the license:<...>
> >
> > Okay. Is it possible to include my possible future UIA code into GTK+
> > codebase if I use the Windows SDK headers? (Provided that my code will
> > be quality, of course.)
>
> That's a really good question, and all I can say here is it needs
> someone with actual legal expertise to answer.  I'm not sure
> what the process might be for handling that in GNOME.  Do we have
> contacts with the FSF who might be able to help?

Another option might be to use the LoadLibrary() + GetProcAddress()
technique to get at the functions you need, which is already being
used with success in GLib and GTK+ [1]. Doing so makes it unnecessary
to redistribute proprietary licensed header files with GTK+ sources.

mvg,
Dieter

[1] For example in GLib master there's gio/win32/gwinhttpvfs.c
     and in GTK+ master there's gdk/win32/gdkdevicemanager-win32.c
     and gtk/gtkwin32theme.c