[RFC] Distributing Windows binary package compiled with non gpl code

["Marco Costalba" <mcostalba-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

It seems I have finally worked out a binary installation of qgit under Windows:

http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/qgit2.1rc1_win.exe


It seems to work with msysgit distribution of git. It DOES NOT work as
expected with Cygwin git that IMHO is very broken for qgit. I ended up
giving the blame to mingw, but after testing the MSVC compiled qgit
both with msysgit and cygwin git I have to say that the problem
*probably* is not in mingw but in cygwin.

Anyhow the MSVC 2008 compiled qgit seems stable and works as
advertised. Now that's the question:

Packaged together with qgit.exe there are the necessary Micorsoft
Visual C dll's. Is this a problem for someone?

I could try to compile again everything with mingw and test if under
msysgit the artifacts that appear with cygwin are fixed, if this
succeed I could prepare a binary package built with mingw and
distribute this instead, but would be this necessary?


qgit is GPL and I for sure want to be stick to GPL, so I don't know if
this can be an issue.


Thanks for help me in clarifing this point

Marco


P.S: Just to be fair I have to say that developing under Windows with
MSVC is much easier, because the debugging tools available with MSVC
2008 are very advanced and powerful, nothing similar exists _for
Window_ in the GPL camp. Indeed MSVC (together with SQL Server) are
(the only) two good products from MS, so good that even do not seem
produced by Microsoft !