Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [Mingw-users] enable std::thread experimental patch

2011-09-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Preface: this whole discussion REALLY boils down to: IANAL, YANAL, so nobody needs to listen to either one of us (but the folks who wrote the GPL FAQ *are* lawyers, so we should probably listen to them). Also, seek competent counsel and pay for your own analysis of the licenses, if this is a busine

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [Mingw-users] enable std::thread experimental patch

2011-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 8/31/2011 5:39 PM, K. Frank wrote: >> Wasn't there also some licensing issue? I never understood the >> details, but I recall seeing warnings, perhaps on one of these >> lists, that the pthreads-win32 license was not as liberal as that >> of ming

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [Mingw-users] enable std::thread experimental patch

2011-08-31 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/31/2011 5:39 PM, K. Frank wrote: > Wasn't there also some licensing issue? I never understood the details, but > I recall seeing warnings, perhaps on one of these lists, that the > pthreads-win32 > license was not as liberal as that of mingw / mingw-w64, and that there were > things I couldn

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [Mingw-users] enable std::thread experimental patch

2011-08-31 Thread K. Frank
Hello Lists! On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Kai Tietz wrote: > ... >>> On 8/30/2011 04:26, Charles Wilson wrote: ... I'm curious: what's the rationale for the new winpthreads package, vs. the existing pthreads-win32 project? http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/ Is