Re: <SPAM> x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ options -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ seems to broken at gcc 9.3.0

Keith Marshall <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Sep 2020 15:43:27 +0100

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On 04/09/2020 14:28, Michael Ellis wrote:
> What exactly is illegal?

"mingw" (irrespective of any capitalization) is a US registered
trademark (reg. no. 86017856); it has been registered by SPI Inc., on
behalf of MinGW.org, and no other project, or organization, is legally
entitled to use the term "mingw" within their project or product names,
without seeking authorization from MinGW.org (which none have).

> Is it the x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ cross compiler that I am using on my
> OS-X computer?
The product name infringes the trademark.

> I downloaded this using the "brew install mingw-w64" Is this program
> illegal?
Once again, "mingw-w64" infringes the trademark.

> If so, is there a legal cross compiler allowing me to build on OS-X
> and deeply on Windows?
The only binaries, legally published by MinGW.org, are for a 32-bit
natively hosted Windows-32 GCC compiler suite; it simply isn't practical
for us to maintain binary releases, to support a plethora of non-Windows
cross-compiler platforms.

That said, I do build my own mingw32 cross-compiler, for use on my Linux
hosts, and my build specs are included in the (modified) source tarball,
as published in MinGW.org FRS.  If the distributors of binaries, built
for non-Windows host were building from our sources, then that would be
acceptable, but I don't think any do (and certainly, none have sought
the necessary authorization), so their use of "mingw", within their
product names, constitutes a trademark violation.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.

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