Les Mikesell wrote: > Leen Besselink wrote: >>>> So Les, what do you think ? If you look at my current webpage ? >>> I don't know enough about GPLv3 to comment, but I'd expect it to >>> prohibit including any portions that can't be distributed under GPL >>> terms like v2 does. Dynamic linking to expected OS libs is probably OK >>> if you don't have to include them. >>> >> I don't include the libraries (I did include something the first time >> in the buildfiles vss.tgz, which was a mistaken), the libraries it uses >> are already installed with the default windows install. > > If you don't actually include any code through static linking and it > doesn't require an extra dynamic library to be installed then you are > probably OK. If the GPL prohibited using the stock system libraries and > kernel interfaces you wouldn't be able to the standard version of rsync > on windows either. The restrictions are about code that needs to be
That was also my thought. > included and thus falling under the 'work as a whole' license > requirement. I was assuming that the SDK included (and required) > library code that wasn't shipped with windows. > The SDK just includes the include and library-files the compiler needs to know how to build it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
