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How is MinGW licensed?

April 26, 2017licensed mingw

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How is MinGW licensed?

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• When Colin Peters released the MinGW runtime he placed the source into the PublicDomain. No one owns a copyright (C) to the source because of this. You as a software manufacturer are free to use the MinGW runtime in your proprietary and OpenSource software as you see fit. The only thing you can’t do is to claim ownership of the source and use Colin Peters’ name, the MinGW name or the name of any of it’s contributors in endorsement of any product. • Please view MinGWLicensing for full details.

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When Colin Peters released the MinGW runtime he placed the source into the [public domain|PublicDomain]. No one owns a copyright (C) to the source because of this. You as a software manufacturer are free to use the MinGW runtime in your proprietary and [open source|OpenSource] software as you see fit. The only thing you can’t do is to claim ownership of the source and use Colin Peters’ name, the MinGW name or the name of any of it’s contributors in endorsement of any product. %%% Please view [MinGW licensing|MinGWLicensing] for full details.

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When Colin Peters released the MinGW runtime he placed the source into the public domain. No one owns a copyright (C) to the source because of this. You as a software manufacturer are free to use the MinGW runtime in your proprietary and OpenSource software as you see fit. The only thing you can’t do is to claim ownership of the source and use Colin Peters’ name, the MinGW name or the name of any of it’s contributors in endorsement of any product. For those interested in the actual legal details and technical points regarding copyright of the MinGW compiler system, copyright information is included in the headers and the source files of the compiler distribution package. The following also applies: • The MinGW basic runtime system, which is basically the glue to the underlying operating system, is completely in the public domain. The runtime system includes MinGW headers (such as stdio.h), libraries (such as libmingw32.a) and import libraries for CRTDLL/MSVCRT. • W32API, which consists