Hi guys, I've long been a fan of the Mingw work and GCC more broadly, but the obligatory copyleft language in the threads subpackage for the most recent release is a significant issue that will force me to shift towards Clang or off of C++ 11 entirely: I'm porting a reliable data replication package to C++ 11 but my users include companies that can't accept the GCC copyleft license.
Is it really necessary to force this copyleft language on your users? And why is the license language hidden this way in a sub-library of the main platform? Seems sneaky and very unlike the historical GCC approach. So obviously it isn't up to a user to tell the developers how to run their show. But I do want to gently push back and say that some of us really prefer to make decisions knowingly, and to have choices. This particularly licensing scheme is sneaky and gives no choice at all. Ken
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