title: License file for Windows API DLL files
body: <p>My friend is currently in preparation of distributing his software and wants to cleanup on the licenses of software he uses. The strategy is that he collects all the files that provides the licensing text.</p>
  
  <p>He finished collecting all the "obvious" licenses, such as the Qt license of the Qt libraries he uses. However he also uses some of the Windows DLLs that come with Windows, such as <code>kernel32.dll</code> and <code>advapi32.dll</code>. </p>
  
  <p>Where can he find the license files so that he can publish it with his software? The first DLL file, <code>kernel32</code> appears to be automatically linked to his software based on an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-linking" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-linking</a> directive. The second file, <code>advapi32.dll</code> is linked explicitly to his software, and he wants to cleanup the situation of that file by collecting the file that provides the license. </p>
  
  <p>For debian linux for example, he knows that the files are below <code>/usr/share/doc/&lt;package of the library&gt;/copyright</code>.</p>