Re: [OctDev] No symbolic package in future (Windows/VC++) releases

[Michael Goffioul]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Kustaa Nyholm
<address@hidden> 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.