Re: MinGW license

Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 6/30/2010 7:29 PM, Greg Chicares wrote:
>> On 2010-06-30 19:13Z, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>> I think we're in a bind, here, without explicit permission from
>>> Norlander or his heirs/assigns, to change the license or assert PD on
>>> our own.
>>
>> Indeed. It sounds like we can't add restrictions or remove requirements,
>> but we must always include the original license...so perhaps that *is*
>> our license, and it can never be changed except by Norlander.
>
> Well, Earnie and I (mostly Earnie) are trying to track down Norlander.
> The question is, once (if) we DO contact him, what do we want to change
> the license TO?
>
> plain old PD?
> unlicense?
> PD + mingw64-ish ZPL fallback?
> punt and use a more...traditional non-copyleft license like MIT/X or
> BSD-3-clause?
>

Or just use the ZPL as the license with a PD statement as the 
COPYRIGHT.txt file.  So, reading the ZPL, I'm wandering how it helps the 
issue of countries who don't recognize PD as legal.  What does Kai use 
for his accompanying copyright file text?

Earnie

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