Re: Windows installer for a GPL C++ program

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Carlo de Falco
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 11 May 2009, at 10:05, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Francesco Potorti` <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I suspect the Qt libraries are at least partly written in C++ and
>>> distributed with a Windows installer.  Unfortunately I don't know how
>>> easy is to ask them for advice on this matter.
>>>
>>> --
>>
>> However, the GPL 3 license of Qt includes a special exception by
>> Trolltech that is likely to be significant here.
>> Also, does the QT installer actually come with MSVC++ runtime libraries
>> bundled?
>>
>
>
> An example of a GPLed application which distributes a Windows installer
> might be
>
> http://www.inkscape.org/
>
> It seems to be "GPLv2 or later" and the source code is at least in part
> written in C++.
>
> I have no idea about how they compile the windows binaries or about the
> libraries they bundle with the installer
> but they have a set of mailing list and forums which seem pretty active so
> someone might want to ask them there.
> I don't believe I'm the right person to do this as I know nothing about
> Windows or MSVC++ as I don't use either.
>
> c.
>

I tried to download the windows zip archive of Inkscape and I indeed
found msvcr70.dll and msvcr71.dll inside. I also didn't spot any
special provision incorporated into the license file.

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz