Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW for commercial purposes?

[Eli Z. <el...@gn...>]

> Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:23:11 +0200
> From: Philip Köster <phi...@we...>
> 
> 
> > I really don't understand the threat and the attitude.  I don't think
> > we did anything to deserve it.
> Please, don't get me wrong: thanks for your quick answer. I just don't 
> understand the differences between GPL and LGPL and Apache---there are 
> way too many licenses around.

If you use only your own code, and don't call any functions in
libraries that are distributed under GPL, you don't need to worry
about any licenses.  If you do call in your code functions from
libraries other than those which came with Windows, you need to study
their respective licenses.