I'm not a lawyer, but as to my knowledge, many commercial as well as
open source software distribution includes msvcr71.dll, say, wincvs,
ImageMagick, VMWare, OpenOffice, etc(just a few cases).
And the vctoolkit2003's EULA says:
"2.2 Redistributable Code-General. Microsoft grants you a nonexclusive,
royalty-free right to reproduce and distribute the object code form of
any portion of the Software listed in REDIST.TXT ("Redistributable
Code"). For general redistribution requirements for Redistributable
Code, see Section3.1, below. "
but its redist.txt doesn't list any files! it says:
"There are no redistributable files (i.e., dll's/cab's, etc.) included
with the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003. Object library files included with the
Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 (e.g. the C Runtime Library static libraries
designated with the suffix ".lib") will be automatically linked to your
program when they are compiled by the Visual C++ compiler and linker.
Inclusion of these static libraries as compiled into your program is
acceptable; you may not, however, redistribute the static libraries
standalone - on their own."
While MSDN also said files in redist.txt is redistributable, the
VS.net's redist.txt DOES include msvcr71.dll. Does it mean only
VisualStudio user can redistribute it?
[1]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore/html/vcconalistofredistributablefiles.asp
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
This gives me the heebie-jeebies. What is the license for that dll?
Are people allowed to re-distribute independent of an app that uses it?
Where else can people get it?
Tim Ellison wrote:
Ok, if somebody prefers a different source send a note.
Regards,
Tim
Mark Hindess wrote:
I failed to find it on microsoft.com too. Though I'd be happy to be
corrected.
It was the first hit on the google search I did - or the first that
didn't use javascript and popups to serve the download. It's trivial
to change if you find a better source.
I was careful to make sure the file it served had the md5sum of the
file in svn. I also checked the sha1sum just to be a little more
confident of its validity.
Regards,
-Mark.
On 3/30/06, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is "www.dlldump.com" our chosen supplier? I've never heard of them.
I browsed around and didn't see it anywhere on the microsoft.com
website. I know we are checking the MD5 to ensure we get the right
thing; any idea about reliability etc.
Regards,
Tim
Mark Hindess (JIRA) wrote:
download msvcr71.dll rather than distributing it
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Key: HARMONY-282
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-282
Project: Harmony
Type: Improvement
Components: Classlib
Reporter: Mark Hindess
Priority: Trivial
Tim suggested we should download the msvcr71.dll rather than
distributing it.
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Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IBM Java technology centre, UK.
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Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
IBM Java Technology Centre, UK.
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Paulex Yang
China Software Development Lab
IBM
