From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Abdelrazak Younes Subject: Re: [RFC] Distributing Windows binary package compiled with non gpl code Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:10:08 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: msysgit@googlegroups.com To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Dec 28 00:12:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J81tW-0001LL-Lm for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:12:07 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753380AbXL0XLe (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:11:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753355AbXL0XLe (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:11:34 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:40695 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752429AbXL0XLd (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:11:33 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J81sX-00034e-QE for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:11:05 +0000 Received: from gre92-5-82-237-199-162.fbx.proxad.net ([82.237.199.162]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:11:05 +0000 Received: from younes.a by gre92-5-82-237-199-162.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:11:05 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: gre92-5-82-237-199-162.fbx.proxad.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Daniel Barkalow wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Marco Costalba wrote: > >> Packaged together with qgit.exe there are the necessary Micorsoft >> Visual C dll's. Is this a problem for someone? My two cents below; I hope you don't mind my interference. > > It depends on how they're packaged together. If it's possible to unpack > them (into a bunch of separate files, where each is either all GPL or no > GPL), then this is "mere aggregation" and perfectly fine (assuming you're > allowed to distribute the Visual C dlls, of course). IIRC, bundled > libraries for Windows programs are stored on the user's disk as separate > files anyway, so this is automatically okay. Yes, MSVC dlls are redistributable. > I'd actually be more concerned about whether you can (or should) > distribute GPL code compiled with a proprietary compiler; This is the exact same situation as with other proprietary platforms (Solaris, HPUx, etc). You should not make a difference for Windows IMHO. Besides, many open source projects have no problem at all with MSVC. > people who get > the binaries and the source still couldn't edit the source and generate a > corresponding binary, because they don't necessarily have the build > environment you used. This particular tool is free (as in beer) to download and use. > On the other hand, nothing you could do differently > would be any better for anyone with the right to complain, so it shouldn't > be an issue in practice. (And a user of qgit for Windows is more likely > than usual to have MSVC anyway) Well said :-) Abdel.