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Re: MSVC runtime library license problem


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: Re: MSVC runtime library license problem
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:33:45 -0500

On 23-Jan-2007, Eric S. Carlson wrote:

| 
| Things are not really clear with express edition runtime libs or
| distributables. On the other hand, msvc 2003 (with rt msvcrt71.dll) has a
| clearer restriction that only the runtime libraries can not be wrapped in a
| way that makes them subject to becoming GPL'd themeselves.

I'm not sure what you mean by "wrapped" but linking some code with
software distributed under the terms of the GPL does not change the
license of the other software to be the GPL.

jwe


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