Hello, can I include and distribute Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest, msvcp80.dll and msvcr80.dll with my app with embedded firebird? Is it license violation or not? Without these files is my app not working properly. thank you
--- In [email protected], Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote: > > At 08:27 AM 24/08/2011, you wrote: > >We are planning to release a commercial product that uses the embedded > >version of Firebird 2.5. We have not modified any of the Firebird source > >code. After reading the Firebird license agreement it seems that this > >distribution is legal if we provide some wording stating that the end users > >can get the Firebird source code for free. Is there any special place this > >statement needs to appear and is there specific wording that I need to > >include? > > If you're talking about the Windows version, you will find the files IPL.txt > and IDPL.txt in the root directory of the binary kit. It is sufficient to > include them, along with a link to the source code kit of the build you are > installing (that's the 5-digit number included in the file name of the binary > kit). > > I have just noticed that these texts appear to be missing from the Linux kits > and maybe also from the MacOS kits (I can't check). They should be there, so > apparently some oversight has occurred at some point. We'll get that fixed > for the 2.5.1 release but if you need them now for a Linux or MacOSX install, > you can pick them up here: > http://firebird.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/firebird/firebird/branches/B2_5_Release/builds/install/misc/ > > ./heLen >
