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


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: Re: [OctDev] No symbolic package in future (Windows/VC++) releases
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:29:10 -0400

On 20-Apr-2009, David Bateman wrote:

| This case definitely isn't unique to CLN/GINAC, though my personal 
| opinion is that the VC++ libraries are part of the compilation process 
| and if a static build was used there wouldn't be any question so I don't 
| see why the case is different with the libraries distributed with the 
| installer.
| 
| In any case from what I understood from this thread the CLN author won't 
| accept any of our muses as evidence one way or the other and his 
| position puts in doubt the use of VC++ for any binary GPL distribution, 
| CLN, Octave or otherwise, so we should bump this to address@hidden 
| and get a definitive opinion.

It seems there is already a FAQ about this issue:

  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WindowsRuntimeAndGPL

so I still don't understand what the problem is.

jwe


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