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


From: Benjamin Abbott
Subject: Re: Result: Octave-UPM on Windows :-(
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:44:06 -0500

On Nov 10, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 10 November 2012 12:30, Alexander Hansen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 11/10/12 10:14 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>>> On 10 November 2012 06:03, Jacob Dawid <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> The problem is that we are collecting experience with using VS and by doing
>>>> that we promote non-free software.
>>> 
>>> There's also a practical problem with distribution here, since given
>>> Visual Studio's non-free nature, our users have to go and chase
>>> additional libraries on their own, since we are not free to give them
>>> those libraries ourselves.
>>> 
>>> A similar problem occurs with Xcode and free distribution on Mac OS X.
>> 
>> Except that Xcode *doesn't install libraries*.
> 
> It installs headers, right? What's in the "command line tools for
> Xcode" that we can't distribute freely?
> 
> - Jordi G. H.

I've been meaning look at the copyright for the headers used by Xcode, but keep 
forgetting.  Has anyone taken a peek?

Ben

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