| 1 | # MinGW DirectX Headers
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| 3 | These headers are taken directly from MinGW-w64 found at:</br>
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| 4 | https://www.mingw-w64.org/</br>
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| 5 | https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mingw-w64/ci/master/tree/mingw-w64-headers/
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| 7 | ## License
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| 8 |
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| 9 | The license for these headers is LGPL v2.1.</br>
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| 10 | However that does not mean that your project is bound by LGPL v2.1 for using these headers:</br>
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| 11 | ```
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| 12 | DirectX and DDK headers are under GNU LGPLv2.1+ (see the file
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| 13 | COPYING.LGPLv2.1) and copyrighted by various people. Using these
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| 14 | headers doesn't make LGPLv2.1 apply to your code, because these
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| 15 | headers files contain only data structure definitions, short
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| 16 | macros, and short inline functions. Here is the relevant part
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| 17 | from LGPLv2.1 section 5 paragraph 4:
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| 19 | If such an object file uses only numerical parameters, data
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| 20 | structure layouts and accessors, and small macros and small
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| 21 | inline functions (ten lines or less in length), then the use
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| 22 | of the object file is unrestricted, regardless of whether it
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| 23 | is legally a derivative work.
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| 24 | ```
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| 26 | See `COPYING.MinGW-w64.txt` for the full license text.
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| 28 | It is also worth noting that in the original repository, the license makes reference
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| 29 | to a `COPYING.LGPLv2.1`, however no such file exists in the repository, nor in the Wine repository.
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| 31 | The license text for LGPL v2.1 can be found here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.en.html
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