Re: Performance issues on Windows, suggests a MSVC build

[Michael Goffioul]

2011/6/22 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
> The GPL FAQ entry that was quoted in the original message asked about
> dynamically linking with the MSVC runtime and apparently that is OK.
> As far as I know, that has always been the case.  The issue we were
> faced with was whether it was OK to distribute the MSVC libraries along
> with the Octave binary for Windows.

No John, the guy went one step further, claiming that even linking against
the runtime libs was violating the GPL. I only got the FSF clarification
in 2009.

For reference, look here:
http://www.ginac.de/pipermail/cln-list/2009-April/thread.html

But it doesn't matter anymore now.

Michael.