bug#10399: [PATCH] Document win32 font backends

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:41:46 -0800
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> CC: lekktu@gmail.com, 10399@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> What exactly is the legal situation surrounding headers?

Sorry, I have no idea.  I was wondering about that myself.

> Would copying and modifying declarations from the Microsoft headers
> or MSDN be acceptable, considering that there is really only one way
> to describe what a function is called and what parameters it takes?
> If not, how exactly would one create untainted declarations?

One way of finding out the answers would be to ask how MinGW (or is it
Cygwin?) produces the headers in the w32api distribution, and how they
avoid the copyright issues when they do.