Hello all,
IANAL, however on my box the file C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio 10.0\redist.txt begins with the following text
"
The following list is a list of files available with Microsoft Visual Studio
2010 for redistribution under the Visual Studio 2010 license. If the
Microsoft software you have licensed is not Visual Studio 2010, only the
files that are installed by the Microsoft software may be redistributed
under such license.
_____________________________________________________________
Visual Basic PowerPacks
Subject to the license terms for the software, the following file may be
redistributed unmodified:
VisualBasicPowerPacksSetup.exe
_____________________________________________________________
Visual C++ Runtime files
Subject to the license terms for the software, you may redistribute the .EXE
files (unmodified) listed below.
These files can be run as prerequisites during installation.
vcredist_x86.exe
vcredist_x64.exe
vcredist_IA64.exe
Subject to the license terms for the software, you may redistribute MSM
files listed below unmodified as a part of your installation package:
Microsoft_VC100_ATL_x86.msm
"
[ . snip . ]
And there are five more sections that I have omitted.
The file is structured in sections, each section has a title and a list of
files.
The titles appear to be software that could be independently distributed.
It appears to me that in each section where it says "terms of the software"
it is referring to the section title.
So I would paraphrase the redist.txt file as follows
If you have Visual Studio 2010, then you may distribute every file listed in
every section of redist.txt in accordance with the Visual Studio 2010
license.
For K = 1 to 7 {
If you do have Visual Studio 2010 and you do have the software listed in
section K, then you may distribute the files listed in section K according
to licence K.
}
So the next step would be to find the text of the Visual Studio 2010 license
or the "Visual C++ Runtime files" license to understand the terms for
distribution.
Regards,
Owen
From: Thomas Kluyver [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: April-25-13 10:19 AM
To: Pietro Moras; primary discussion list for use and development of
cx_Freeze
Subject: Re: [cx-freeze-users] An opportunity: cx_Freeze in Eric IDE
On 25 April 2013 14:29, Thomas Kluyver <[email protected]> wrote:
- We're interested in improving the situation with the MSVCR, but it seemed
to be an unclear legal situation when we looked into it. I forget the
details, but it was something like only people with the paid version of
Visual Studio could officially distribute those DLLs.
"If any of these files are provided by Microsoft, check whether you are
permitted to redistribute them. To view a list of permitted files, see
Redist.txt in the ..\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\ folder on the computer
where Visual Studio is installed."
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235299%28v=vs.100%29.aspx
There doesn't seem to be any mention of redistributing them if you don't
have visual studio installed. Presumably it just never occurred to Microsoft
that anyone would want to.
I also can't see anything with the Visual C++ Runtime redistributable
packages indicating the conditions under which you can distribute them.
Maybe there's info included in the installer itself, but I'm not running in
Windows at the moment to check.
Thomas
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