Just for info, qt5+ does not support Windows XP anyway.. So I don't really see a problem with dropping support completely. Fabien
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Bogdan Marinov <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Bogdan Marinov <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello. >> >> At the moment, the Windows installer for 0.13 includes "msvc*.dll" (see >> CMakeLists.txt). Including these libraries in a distribution package >> presented as GPL may be a violation of the GPL. >> >> See the GPL FAQ: >> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WindowsRuntimeAndGPL >> >> You may not distribute these libraries in compiled DLL form with the >>> program. To prevent unscrupulous distributors from trying to use the System >>> Library exception as a loophole, the GPL says that libraries can only >>> qualify as System Libraries as long as they're not distributed with the >>> program itself. If you distribute the DLLs with the program, they won't be >>> eligible for this exception anymore; then the only way to comply with the >>> GPL would be to provide their source code, which you are unable to do. >> >> >> I think that they are referring to this part of section 3 of GPL v2: >> >> However, as a >>> special exception, the source code distributed need not include >>> anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary >>> form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the >>> operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component >>> itself accompanies the executable. >>> >> >> AFAIK, VC redistributable files need to be installed only on Windows XP, >> as later versions of Windows include some of them by default. >> >> I'll try to look more into this issue. A possible solution is to have two >> versions on Windows, one MinGW/OpenGL for those with newer graphics >> cards/OSes, one MSVC/ANGLE that requires additional installation of DirectX >> and/or the VC redistributables. I think that the installer can be made to >> check for those libraries. >> > > I sent this almost two weeks ago. No reaction? My next step will be to > remove the necessary lines from the InnoSetup script. > > Bogdan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel > >
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