Re: [Mingw-users] mingw licensing

[Oscar F. <of...@wa...>]

"Schuster, Joel (N-Compaq)" <joe...@lm...> writes:

> I hear you, unfortuanatly the lawyers at Lockheed disagree... That's why we
> can't use it, and also because we can't distribute extra shared libraries
> beyond what's on the OS.

This shows that those lawyers worries more about protecting their asses
than about doing their work correctly.

I know this sounds harsh, but it's what I think. Sorry.

[FYI: most open source libraries have a more liberal license than the
MS one that applies to OS dll's, meaning this that you can use the
library's source code and the resulting executable and do wathever you
want with them, except claiming you wrote the sources, or distribute
modified sources as if they were the original ones. AFAIK, you can't
use an official MS OS dll with the Wine windows clone, for instance].

-- 
Oscar