On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:59 PM, John E. / TDM <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/12/2013 12:50 PM, K. Frank wrote:
> > Hi Vadim!
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Vadim <> wrote:
> *snip*
> >> Before we embark on that, I'd like to clarify a couple more things:
> >>
> >> 1. Have you guys considered adopting/forking phtreads-win32? I believe
> this
> >> is what the regular mingw uses. That library looks more mature, at
> least as
> >> far as mutexes go.
> *snip*
> > I think that pthreads-win32 has a less flexible license. I think one
> > reason for winpthreads is to offer users a more flexible license.
> > (Maybe they don't have to ship source code for pthreads-win32,
> > or something.)
>
> This is absolutely the case. The pthreads-win32 library is LGPL, forcing
> the distribution of its source code along with all binary distributions
> -- and since all binaries compiled by a pthreads-enabled GCC depend on
> the pthreads library, everyone would have to distribute the pthreads
> source along with every program. Cheers to Kai et al. for creating an
> alternative.
>
> -John E. / TDM
>
But aren't gcc compiled binaries already dependent on libgcc?
Vadim
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