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It looks like they have basically adopted the coding conventions of windows API code, down to the /++ --/ comments, style of declaring functions, uppercase type
by maaarghk 10y ago
It looks like they have basically adopted the coding conventions of windows API code, down to the /++ --/ comments, style of declaring functions, uppercase types etc. Not that it's is a bad thing, just something I noticed.
Also things like KeCrashSystemEx look very much like KeBugCheckEx in Windows. There certainly is a lot of inspiration.
Edit: I see from Linkedin the OP is actually an ex-MSFTer who worked on Windows' HAL, so this makes sense. I wonder, tho, if this will present legal issues? Could someone say that it is an issue that the API is clearly inspired by the Windows API?
- billytetrud 10y agoWhile there are the usual legal bizzarities ( http://blog.smartbear.com/apis/api-copyright-and-why-you-should-care/ http://blog.smartbear.com/apis/api-copyright-and-why-you-sho... ), there's no reason this should be any different than copyright of code. Design-inspired is not design infringement.