Re: [Mingw-users] Why does mingw use visual c library and calls itself completely open source

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

> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 21:45:18 +0530
> From: Vishal Agrawal <vis...@gm...>
> 
> The core of mingw contains proprietary closed source microsoft visual c
> runtime library. So is it dignified in calling itself completely open
> source.

msvcrt.dll is a system library, and even GPL allows to link against
non-free system libraries, without violating the GPL copyleft.