On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
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.
Yes, I am talking about building using MSYS. When I build using MSYS this <sys/dirent.h> is used:
/* Posix dirent.h for WIN32.
Copyright 2001 Red Hat, Inc.
This software is a copyrighted work licensed under the terms of the Cygwin license. Please consult the file "CYGWIN_LICENSE" for details. */
/* Including this file should not require any Windows headers. */
Which means that unsuspecting programs built under MSYS (e.g. libltdl) may end up being GPLed by accident when it was assumed that only GPL-free MINGW headers/libraries were used.
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