Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Mingw-w64" in English language version.
From a cursory spot check of a few files, the crt sources in particular appear to contain too much undocumented material that I suspect may be derived from proprietary sources. I have since avoided looking at the mingw-w64 sources to avoid any taint of copyright abuse. I could well be wrong, but I would rather be safe than jeopardise the future of the mingw32, which has tried to maintain a "clean-room" ethic during its development.
However, we would require a formal audit of mingw-64 code, to ensure conformance with our requirements for truly open documentation of sources, before [merge of mingw-w64] could be completed.
From a cursory spot check of a few files, the crt sources in particular appear to contain too much undocumented material that I suspect may be derived from proprietary sources. I have since avoided looking at the mingw-w64 sources to avoid any taint of copyright abuse. I could well be wrong, but I would rather be safe than jeopardise the future of the mingw32, which has tried to maintain a "clean-room" ethic during its development.
However, we would require a formal audit of mingw-64 code, to ensure conformance with our requirements for truly open documentation of sources, before [merge of mingw-w64] could be completed.