Re: Result: Octave-UPM on Windows :-(

[Israel Herraiz]

Excerpts from Michael Goffioul's message of Fri Nov 09 17:14:21 +0100 2012:
> 1) I think you need a professional license of Visual Studio in order to
> redistribute the MSVC runtime DLL (the redistributable DLL's are only
> bundled with the professional version); otherwise you have to direct users
> to download the DLL package from MS website (not sure whether you host that
> file either), and this package requires sysadmin to install

My employer has a license for Visual Studio. I release the program as
part of my work for my classes.

> 2) there have been a lot of discussion about GPL and the MSVC DLL's, and
> don't want to repeat that here, but the summary is: you are allowed to link
> against the MSVC DLL, but you are not allowed to distribute the DLL bundled
> with octave in an installer

Yes, the link that Jordi provided seems very clear. Thanks for the
advice anyway. I will not do that.

Cheers,
Israel