Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] w32api license

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

The original author created most of the license.  Unfortunately he is=20
unreachable.  I've already rewritten the license once to remove the=20
requirement of letting the author know that you were using the product.=20
  We unfortunately missed this license issue before accepting his work.

I would enjoy a new license for public domain.  What is the etiquette or=20
protocol for this situation?

Danny Smith wrote:

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>>Hi Danny,
>>
>>
>>>I'm cc-ing  mingw-dvlpr on this to see what there
>>>reaction is, but my
>>>reaction is that,
>>>the w32api headers and libs, as distributed by the
>>>mingw project, should
>>>remain unlicensed.
>>
>>According to the page
>>http://www.mingw.org/licensing.shtml w32api _is_
>>licensed and it doesn't seem like the Rewind project
>>could use it under these terms - "You may not restrict
>>the usage of this library." - as the BSD license lets
>>you distribute it under your own terms provided the
>>copyright notice and permission notice/disclaimer are
>>present.
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> My mistake.  I didn't realize that the package was licensed at all.
> Okay.  How about submitting a patch to reword the license in
> w32api.readme so that it can be used with BSD license.
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> Please, however, submit to the  Patch tracker at mingw sourceforge site
> or  to min...@li... so that this discussion can
> be opened up a bit.
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> Danny
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>>If w32api were public domain as you said then there'd
>>be no problem using it in Rewind.
>>
>>I wouldn't have any problem with submitting patches
>>for w32api into the public domain, although permission
>>would be needed from the original authors to put
>>existing Rewind headers into the public domain.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Mark Collins
>>
>>
>>
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