Bob Friesenhahn writes: > It turns out that the <dirent> related functionality provided with > MinGW is hoisted from Cygwin. As such, it has GPL restrictions.
Errr, certainly not. Maybe you are thinking of the dirent implementation in MSYS? MSYS *is* a fork of Cygwin. MSYS is an environment for a configure shell script and the tools it invokes. When you develop software with mingw and MSYS, the produced binaries in no way use MSYS. The dirent implementation bundled with mingw is in the public domain: /* * dirent.c * This file has no copyright assigned and is placed in the Public Domain. * This file is a part of the mingw-runtime package. * No warranty is given; refer to the file DISCLAIMER within the package. * * Derived from DIRLIB.C by Matt J. Weinstein * This note appears in the DIRLIB.H * DIRLIB.H by M. J. Weinstein Released to public domain 1-Jan-89 * * Updated by Jeremy Bettis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Significantly revised and rewinddir, seekdir and telldir added by Colin * Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * */ /* * DIRENT.H (formerly DIRLIB.H) * This file has no copyright assigned and is placed in the Public Domain. * This file is a part of the mingw-runtime package. * No warranty is given; refer to the file DISCLAIMER within the package. * */ _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
