On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Alain Baeckeroot
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> ==
>> The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
>> making modifications to it.  For an executable work, complete source
>> code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
>> associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
>> control compilation and installation of the executable.  However, as a
>> special exception, the source code distributed need not include
>> anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
>> form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
>> operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
>> itself accompanies the executable.
>> ==
>>
>> In other words, you can link against VC++ runtime libs, but you can't
>> include them into an installer for user convenience.
>>
>> Michael.
>>
> out of curioisity too, doesn't this affect all GPL2 modules and
>  octave itself ?

Possibly yes, but I guess this depends on your interpretation of
the last sentence of the quoted paragraph.

> doesn't shipping on 2 different media would solve the problem ?

Anybody is free (as in free speech) to redo the port, compilation
and packaging of more than 50 components, if he wants to.

Michael.

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