Re: <dirent> functions under MinGW

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> Bob Friesenhahn writes:
> > It turns out that the <dirent> related functionality provided with
> > MinGW is hoisted from Cygwin.  As such, it has GPL restrictions.
>
> Errr, certainly not. Maybe you are thinking of the dirent
> implementation in MSYS? MSYS *is* a fork of Cygwin. MSYS is an
> environment for a configure shell script and the tools it
> invokes. When you develop software with mingw and MSYS, the produced
> binaries in no way use MSYS.

Yes, I am talking about building using MSYS.  When I build using MSYS 
this <sys/dirent.h> is used:

/* Posix dirent.h for WIN32.

   Copyright 2001 Red Hat, Inc.

   This software is a copyrighted work licensed under the terms of the
   Cygwin license.  Please consult the file "CYGWIN_LICENSE" for
   details. */

/* Including this file should not require any Windows headers.  */

Which means that unsuspecting programs built under MSYS (e.g. libltdl) 
may end up being GPLed by accident when it was assumed that only 
GPL-free MINGW headers/libraries were used.

Bob
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