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thomas:
The licenses of these files shouldn't be a problem for any of us. Most of them are under the GPL, a few are under some homebrewn zlib-like "do what you want" licenses.
The word "Berkeley" appears quite often, but I have not found any software in that archive that is actually under the Berkeley license. Rather, Berkeley only appears because an author happened to work or live in Berkeley. :)

The packager of unxutils distributes all of the tools in one zip file under the Apache license 2.0 without distributing the individual license files. I am not 100% sure if this is really legal if you read the law to the letter, but that's maybe a bit pedantic. :)
However, that may of course be a reason why it is not bundled with MinGW (who knows).

It is a very nice collection alltogether, but as said above, it is potentially dangerous, as you can break your MinGW installation if you just unpack the archive blindly. One has to be careful not to overwrite existing files.

Max:
Hello,

Please note that

w32api-3.6.tar.gz


is not the latest WinApi libraries archive. The 3.7 is available. Unfortunately the main download page
in mingw site is no longer updated. See the News.

bye

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