Re: [Mingw-users] asinh, acosh, atanh, expm1 (Modified by Paul Kienzle)

[Greg C. <chi...@mi...>]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> Paul Kienzle wrote:
[offers to the MinGW project a patched version of files with this notice:]
>>
> >  * Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> >  *
> >  * Developed at SunSoft, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business.
> >  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
> >  * software is freely granted, provided that this notice
> >  * is preserved.
> 
> Sorry, this cannot be allowed.

Is the reason that MinGW itself is public domain?

I'm not arguing, just trying to understand. This doesn't seem
very different from the license for include/c++/3.2.3/vector,
which reads in part:

 * Copyright (c) 1994
 * Hewlett-Packard Company
 *
 * Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this software
 * and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
 * provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and
 * that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear
 * in supporting documentation.