[Info-vax] decc$stat() variants on VMS.

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 11:58:07 AM UTC+12, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> Something that would require careful packaging to stay compliant with 
> the Linux licensing?

Only kernel modules would require the GPL. Userland code could use any licence you like. I don’t think WINE needs any kernel modules; why would VMS?

>>> (Going toward OO APIs is probably a bridge too far, though.)
>> 
>> That option would be available at little or no extra cost.
> 
> That "little or no extra cost" for an OO framework for just the central 
> parts of OpenVMS APIs would be a design and an implementation I'd be 
> interested in learning more about.

Ah. I was thinking more in terms of using the existing higher-level OO APIs available for userland libraries that already exist on Linux, rather than inventing new, VMS-specific ones.