Le 20/04/2009 à 14:17, Michael Goffioul a écrit : > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Kustaa Nyholm > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Out of curiosity, would be interesting to understand exactly why this is > > allegedly violation of GPLv2? > > This paragraph from GPLv2 > > == > 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 ?
doesn't shipping on 2 different media would solve the problem ? Alain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
