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Quoting from one of Extremetech.com articles, which itself quotes
from the License Agreement of the then Visual Studio.net Beta 2 :
"OPEN SOURCE: Recipient warrants that (a) an Application will not
incorporate, be combined or
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distributed with Publicly Available Software in whole or in part, and
(b) Recipient will not
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use Publicly Available Software in the development of any part of
such Application in a manner that may subject the Redistributables or
derivative thereof, in whole or in part, to all or
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
part of the license obligations of any Publicly Available Software.
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"Publicly Available Software" means each of (i) any software that
contains, or is derived in any manner (in whole or in part) from, any
software that is distributed as free software, open source software
(e.g. Linux) or similar licensing or distribution models; and (ii)
any software that requires as a condition of use, modification and/or
distribution of such software that such software or other software
incorporated into, derived from or distributed with such software (a)
be disclosed or distributed in source code form; (b) be licensed for
the purpose of making derivative works; or (c) be redistributable
without charge.
Publicly Available Software includes, without limitation, software
licensed or distributed under any of the following licenses or
distribution models, or licenses or distribution models similar to
any of the following: (a) GNU's General Public License (GPL) or
Lesser/Library GPL (LGPL), (b) The Artistic License (e.g., PERL), (c)
the Mozilla Public License, (d) the Netscape Public License, (e) the
Sun Community Source License (SCSL), (f) the Sun Industry Source
License (SISL), and (g) the Apache Server license. "
I am not well versed in such legalese, but please correct me if I'm
wrong.
The article should be in Extremetech.com's archives. I can also send
the article to you offlist.
Soumyadip Modak
RCC Institute of Information Technology
Kolkata, India
> Hi,
> I don't hink its true that code you develop with MS VC can
> not be released under the GPL. It is possible is you use the
> foundation classes that there are restrictions, but otherwise
> not. This would mean, for isntance, QT applications under
> windows culd not be released under GPL simply because on win,
> the compiler used is VC
>
> The msvcrt.dll that you need to include is proprietary, but
> as far as I know there are no restrictions on its redistribution.
>
> Could you send me a link to the license you refer to that
> shows code compiled using MS VC can not be released under GPL ?
>
> If this is true I 'll then have to migrate to some other compiler.
>
> thanks
> -kg
>
>
>
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