Re: [Mingw-users] MSYS licensing clarification

[Christopher F. <cg...@re...>]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 02:54:45PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Can I clarify an issue wrt to msys?  If you write an application which
>>relies on msys, your application will become GPLed.  This is, I
>>believe, a big departure from previous mingw applications and I don't
>>recall that this has been mentioned.
>>
>>If you are just using msys tools to build an application and the
>>application doesn't use the msys DLL then there is nothing to worry
>>about.
>>
>
>It's not the purpose nor my intention that MinGW users build MSYS
>applications.  Version 1.0.2 only contains distributed binaries, not
>headers or libs.  Of course, the source contains these should one want
>to build them.

There was some discussion about whether MSYS should support pthreads
and I can't remember anyone mentioning licensing there.  I could have
missed this or maybe I introduced confusion myself.

>Given this, your concern of a MinGW package relying on the MSYS DLL
>should be of less concern.  However, any package relying on MSYS should
>be clearly marked.
>
>Let me further say that _USING_ msys is not the same as _RELYING_ON_
>msys.

Right.  That is what I was trying to say above: "If you are just using
msys tools..."

cgf