<dirent> functions under MinGW

[Tor Lillqvist]

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.

The dirent implementation bundled with mingw is in the public domain:

/*
 * dirent.c
 * This file has no copyright assigned and is placed in the Public Domain.
 * This file is a part of the mingw-runtime package.
 * No warranty is given; refer to the file DISCLAIMER within the package.
 *
 * Derived from DIRLIB.C by Matt J. Weinstein 
 * This note appears in the DIRLIB.H
 * DIRLIB.H by M. J. Weinstein   Released to public domain 1-Jan-89
 *
 * Updated by Jeremy Bettis <address@hidden>
 * Significantly revised and rewinddir, seekdir and telldir added by Colin
 * Peters <address@hidden>
 *      
 */

/*
 * DIRENT.H (formerly DIRLIB.H)
 * This file has no copyright assigned and is placed in the Public Domain.
 * This file is a part of the mingw-runtime package.
 * No warranty is given; refer to the file DISCLAIMER within the package.
 *
 */