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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673790

--- Comment #5 from Erik van Pienbroek erik-fedora@vanpienbroek.nl 2011-07-01 10:10:00 EDT --- Hi Tom,

We've made this package block FE-LEGAL because we're not entirely sure if the contents of this package (and the mingw-crt package, bug 673792) are okay to add to Fedora. In earlier discussions on the fedora-mingw mailing list there have been some signals about a legal audit which should be done: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/mingw/2010-March/002557.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/mingw/2010-May/002589.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/mingw/2011-January/003347.html

As we're uncertain if Red Hat/Fedora approves the use of these libraries and headers we decided to have RH-Legal/Fedora legal take a look at it before continuing with the introduction of mingw-w64 in Fedora.

Kai Tietz, one of the mingw-w64 developers has been hired by Red Hat recently and he started to get the legal issues cleared in Red Hat internally. I don't know what the progress of that is, but perhaps you could get in touch with each other for further discussion?