2014-02-20 12:47 GMT+01:00 Hannes Domani <ssb...@yahoo.de>: > Hello > > Kai Tietz <ktiet...@googlemail.com> schrieb am 10:14 Donnerstag, 20.Februar > 2014: > >> I would advice you to look in more detail to license issues. MS >> compiler has them, and gcc & mingw(-w64) do so too. You will be >> wondering what other licenses you are using for just building a simple >> hello-world-application with mingw(-w64). For getting an idea you >> might to take a look to the COPYING.MinGW-w64-runtime license. > > This is confusing me now as well. > Aren't the files of mingw-w64-headers and mingw-w64-crt in the public domain? > At least it says so in those files: > > /** > * This file has no copyright assigned and is placed in the Public Domain. > * This file is part of the mingw-w64 runtime package. > * No warranty is given; refer to the file DISCLAIMER.PD within this package. > */ So when does the COPYING.MinGW-w64-runtime apply? > > Regards > Domani Hannes
There is nothing confusing about that. Most of the licenses are part of MinGW.org's startup too. Never understood why they don't provide such a readme file about used runtime-license as we do. Anyway, I see that there seems to be a lot of confusing, rumors, and uncertainties about licenses. So I try to explain. Some of the headers are in PD (at least for places where it is possible to put something active into public domain). For other places (please take a look to DISCLAIMER.PD) you will find that ZPL is used instead. Nevertheless not all parts of startup-code (and these aren't headers) are using ZPL/PD licenses. Again read the license-files or look into the source files itself. Eg gdtoa isn't PD, etc Regards, Kai ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
