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Date:	Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:05:57 EDT
Subject:	-mwindows copyright?
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Hi..

  I'm using the -mno-cygwin and -mwindows options to compile my program.  I'm 
also binding to several other windows libs such as -lwsock32.  I want to 
distribute my programs--as well as source--entirely public domain.  The 
copyright on all of the mingw libraries seems to be public domain, so I'm ok 
there.  But looking at the windows libraries in the source, some of them have 
copyrights such as winsup/sysdef/wsock32.def:
--snip--
;   Exports for WSOCK32 DLL
;
;   Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;
;   Author:  Scott Christley <scottc AT net-community DOT com>
;   Date: 1996
;   
;   This file is part of the Windows32 API Library.
;
;   This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
;   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
;   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
;   version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
--snip--
Does this mean that if I use -mwindows/-lwsock32 I either have to distribute 
my program under GNU, or write my own .def's for windows API? (which I 
imagine would be a minor pain)

Aaron

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