Add a note about the incompatibility of MSVC7 and the GPL/LGPL.

diff --git a/README.woe32 b/README.woe32
index 49f76d24b468c97f35b7608de4f35d4648806098..1d33722beed3f3b8c859d6900ed0597d1240341b 100644 (file)
--- a/README.woe32
+++ b/README.woe32
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ Installation on Woe32 (WinNT/2000/XP, Win95/98/ME):
 
 - Requires MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 or 7.0.
 
+  Note that binaries created with MSVC 7.0 cannot be distributed: They depend
+  on a closed-source library 'msvcr70.dll' which is not normally part of a
+  Woe32 installation, therefore the distribution of such binaries - with or
+  without msvcr70.dll - would be a violation of the GPL. This problem does not
+  occur with MSVC 6.0 and earlier.
+
 - Cannot build in a separate directory.
 
 - Build instructions:

diff --git a/gettext-runtime/README.woe32 b/gettext-runtime/README.woe32
index 8f19d09abd9323a8ab234cade3bf152ee955a72b..fd649b77a422a7cb90dbffb8ab1d61598931c563 100644 (file)
--- a/gettext-runtime/README.woe32
+++ b/gettext-runtime/README.woe32
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ Installation on Woe32 (WinNT/2000/XP, Win95/98/ME):
 
 - Requires MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 or 7.0.
 
+  Note that binaries created with MSVC 7.0 cannot be distributed: They depend
+  on a closed-source library 'msvcr70.dll' which is not normally part of a
+  Woe32 installation, therefore the distribution of such binaries - with or
+  without msvcr70.dll - would be a violation of the GPL. This problem does not
+  occur with MSVC 6.0 and earlier.
+
 - Cannot build in a separate directory.
 
 - Build instructions:

diff --git a/gettext-runtime/intl/README.woe32 b/gettext-runtime/intl/README.woe32
index e4c32887a1dda76375766d162ef6a8dac6783bf1..dbf3c62ae774d6fb3d3e73c6554da3e1f43a1e61 100644 (file)
--- a/gettext-runtime/intl/README.woe32
+++ b/gettext-runtime/intl/README.woe32
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ Installation on Woe32 (WinNT/2000/XP, Win95/98/ME):
 
 - Requires MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 or 7.0.
 
+  Note that binaries created with MSVC 7.0 cannot be distributed: They depend
+  on a closed-source library 'msvcr70.dll' which is not normally part of a
+  Woe32 installation, therefore the distribution of such binaries - with or
+  without msvcr70.dll - would be a violation of the GPL. This problem does not
+  occur with MSVC 6.0 and earlier.
+
 - Cannot build in a separate directory.
 
 - Build instructions:

diff --git a/gettext-runtime/libasprintf/README.woe32 b/gettext-runtime/libasprintf/README.woe32
index 2ac6cf40e3485307b6fda39f04085671f6d4da3d..c83a59cbf949041d78ce595779b14a549ecddb74 100644 (file)
--- a/gettext-runtime/libasprintf/README.woe32
+++ b/gettext-runtime/libasprintf/README.woe32
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ Installation on Woe32 (WinNT/2000/XP, Win95/98/ME):
 
 - Requires MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 or 7.0.
 
+  Note that binaries created with MSVC 7.0 cannot be distributed: They depend
+  on a closed-source library 'msvcr70.dll' which is not normally part of a
+  Woe32 installation, therefore the distribution of such binaries - with or
+  without msvcr70.dll - would be a violation of the GPL. This problem does not
+  occur with MSVC 6.0 and earlier.
+
 - Cannot build in a separate directory.
 
 - Build instructions:

diff --git a/gettext-tools/README.woe32 b/gettext-tools/README.woe32
index 8f19d09abd9323a8ab234cade3bf152ee955a72b..fd649b77a422a7cb90dbffb8ab1d61598931c563 100644 (file)
--- a/gettext-tools/README.woe32
+++ b/gettext-tools/README.woe32
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ Installation on Woe32 (WinNT/2000/XP, Win95/98/ME):
 
 - Requires MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 or 7.0.
 
+  Note that binaries created with MSVC 7.0 cannot be distributed: They depend
+  on a closed-source library 'msvcr70.dll' which is not normally part of a
+  Woe32 installation, therefore the distribution of such binaries - with or
+  without msvcr70.dll - would be a violation of the GPL. This problem does not
+  occur with MSVC 6.0 and earlier.
+
 - Cannot build in a separate directory.
 
 - Build instructions: