From: Kai T. <kti...@go...> - 2011-04-15 06:06:09
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2011/4/15 Chris Sutcliffe <ir0...@gm...>: > On 14 April 2011 15:39, Kai Tietz wrote: >> Those files you are seeing here are from Wine. We are co-operating >> with Wine. For them we have special agreement on this. Nevertheless >> header files with origin of mingw-w64 have in general PD/ZPL license. > > I'm a little confused, then are the mingw-w64 headers split between > public domain and LGPL depending on where they originated from? > > Chris Yes, those parts we imported from Wine are remaining there original copyright. Of course we welcome to relicense them by their original authors to BSD/MIT, or PD (ZPL). But well, for headers with LGPL, we enforce that donator see for them that the clause 5 of LPGL license is hitting. The Mingw-w64 team and those of contributors to mingw-w64 uses the PD (ZPL) license for headers. We are accepting in question also MIT/BSD as license as exception, but for this pretty good reasons have to be shown. Regards, Kai |