There are several reasons why we decided to build the SDK against the system CRT msvcrt.dll, but the most important one is that if you decide to link against any of the VS ones you will be forced to distribute broken software.
According to MS EULA you can't distribute yourself this "system library" (eg: msvcr100.dll) so your software is depending on a third party installer (Microsoft Visual C++ 20XX Redistributable Package). The GPL also forbids explicitely the redistribution of System Libraries (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#WindowsRuntimeAndGPL). How is this handled in Firefox? There is the option of rebuilding the SDK linking against msvcr100.dll, this would require on our side providing a gcc spec that links against moldnames100 and msvcr100 and rebuilding gcc so that libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll and libstdc++6.dll are linked against the new CRT and using the gcc spec in the toolchain. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412647 Title: Firefox is not able to play mp4 <video> tags Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Fix Released Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox With firefox 3.5 html5 was introduced. However only ogg is supported as it seems. The html5-preview on youtube.com (http://www.youtube.com/html5) doesn't work at all, but it does play in safari and epiphany-webkit. Please make firefox able to install video codecs or use the ones avaible through gstreamer. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/412647/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
