Daniel Barkalow wrote:
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:
Packaged together with qgit.exe there are the necessary Micorsoft
Visual C dll's. Is this a problem for someone?
My two cents below; I hope you don't mind my interference.
It depends on how they're packaged together. If it's possible to unpack
them (into a bunch of separate files, where each is either all GPL or no
GPL), then this is "mere aggregation" and perfectly fine (assuming you're
allowed to distribute the Visual C dlls, of course). IIRC, bundled
libraries for Windows programs are stored on the user's disk as separate
files anyway, so this is automatically okay.
Yes, MSVC dlls are redistributable.
I'd actually be more concerned about whether you can (or should)
distribute GPL code compiled with a proprietary compiler;
This is the exact same situation as with other proprietary platforms
(Solaris, HPUx, etc). You should not make a difference for Windows IMHO.
Besides, many open source projects have no problem at all with MSVC.
people who get
the binaries and the source still couldn't edit the source and generate a
corresponding binary, because they don't necessarily have the build
environment you used.
This particular tool is free (as in beer) to download and use.
On the other hand, nothing you could do differently
would be any better for anyone with the right to complain, so it shouldn't
be an issue in practice. (And a user of qgit for Windows is more likely
than usual to have MSVC anyway)
Well said :-)
Abdel.
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