Hi, On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Fish Wang <fish.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Will do. However, I’m by no means a license expert. Based on Licensing > Terms page on MinGW’s website ([1], win32api), I believe the code I > stripped out of MinGW should be fine as long as a copy of the notice and > its license [2] is included. Please correct me if I’m wrong. I thought those headers are from the mingw-w64 (a different code base from mingw32).. Anyway, I did not mean to imply any licensing issues with extracting parts from mingw32 or mingw-w64 --- both have permissive licenses so there is no clash. However, some GPL projects have clear guidelines of how to incorporate code from other licenses. Personally I prefer to keep public domain code (and minor edits to it) in a separate file which clearly indicates its in PD with the original notice so that one wouldn't slap on a GPL header on it later. While some projects want all their additions to be GPL keeping the original in PD etc..(Fro example, see various practices disscussed in https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.pdf ). Better wait for a core developer to comment on this.. Selva
