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Pthreads-win32 - POSIX Threads Library for Win32
Copyright(C) 1998 John E. Bossom
Copyright(C) 1999,2006 Pthreads-win32 contributors
The current list of contributors is contained in the file CONTRIBUTORS included with the
source code distribution. The current list of CONTRIBUTORS can also be seen at the fol-
lowing WWW location:
http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/contributors.html
Contact Email: Ross Johnson
Please use: [email protected]
These files are not covered under one of the Copyrights listed above:
COPYING
COPYING.LIB
tests/rwlock7.c
This file, COPYING, is distributed under the Copyright found at the top of this file. It is im-
portant to note that you may distribute verbatim copies of this file but you may not
modify this file.
The file COPYING.LIB, which contains a copy of the version 2.1 GNU Lesser General Public
License, is itself copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. Please note that the
Free Software Foundation, Inc. does NOT have a copyright over Pthreads-win32, only the
COPYING.LIB that is supplied with pthreads-win32.
The file tests/rwlock7.c is derived from code written by Dave Butenhof for his book 'Pro-
gramming With POSIX(R) Threads'. The original code was obtained by free download from
his website http://home.earthlink.net/~anneart/family/Threads/source.html and did not
contain a copyright or author notice. It is assumed to be freely distributable.
In all cases one may use and distribute these exception files freely. And because one may
freely distribute the LGPL covered files, the entire pthreads-win32 source may be freely
used and distributed.
General Copyleft and License info
For general information on Copylefts, see:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/
For information on GNU Lesser General Public Licenses, see:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.txt
Why pthreads-win32 did not use the GNU General Public License
The goal of the pthreads-win32 project has been to provide a quality and complete imple-
mentation of the POSIX threads API for Microsoft Windows within the limits imposed by
virtue of it being a stand-alone library and not linked directly to other POSIX compliant
libraries. For example, some functions and features, such as those based on POSIX signals,
are missing.
Pthreads-win32 is a library, available in several different versions depending on supported
compilers, and may be used as a dynamically linked module or a statically linked set of
binary modules. It is not an application on it's own.