Re: Patch for premain() function

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:30:14AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Ralf Habacker wrote:
>>BTW: I have taken a look into the cygwin source.  The cygwin library
>>defines the same functionality with the premain[0-3] hooks.  So this
>>patch adds the same functionality to the mingw environment (with some
>>little differences, which could be adapted mostly to the cygwin
>>behavior)
>
>Too bad you invalidate your patch by looking into GPL source for
>implementation specifics.  We now cannot accept your patch for this
>reason.  All code which will become a part of the executable itself
>must remain in the public domain.

This code in cygwin is simple enough that I don't think it should be an
issue.

This doesn't mean that it is necessarily a good idea, but the GPL issue
shouldn't be a show stopper.


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