>>>>> "CK" == Carsten Kuckuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CK> So from a first superficial look it seems that I can use VS CK> 6.0 in order to develop GPLs applications, and that I can CK> distribute the source code and the compiled version of the CK> application under the GPL as long as the executables use the CK> MSVCRT and MFC libraries as linked libraries (vs. static CK> linking), and as long as I don't include the MSVCRT and MFC CK> libraries with my software. So, I realize this wasn't your question, which Rick answered quite well, but I feel the need to note that you _can_ use an Open Source toolset for creating Windows programs. There's GnuWin32: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ and mingw: http://www.mingw.org/ ...for general-purpose compiling and such. Both are based on GCC, so you get all the fancy STL classes and other features you may want out of MFC. There's also a number of cross-platform GUI widget kits, such as V: http://www.objectcentral.com/vgui/vgui.htm ...and wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows): http://www.wxwidgets.org/ For the more adventurous, I believe there are ports of GTK and GNUStep to Windows, too. Anyways, I'm probably just stating the obvious, but I figured somebody should. ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wikitravel - http://wikitravel.org/en/ The free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3