From: Bruno Haible Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:37:57 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add a note about the incompatibility of MSVC7 and the GPL/LGPL. X-Git-Tag: v0.13.1~8 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c665314102807cb184418202193ef73a87643130;p=thirdparty%2Fgettext.git Add a note about the incompatibility of MSVC7 and the GPL/LGPL. --- diff --git a/README.woe32 b/README.woe32 index 49f76d24b..1d33722be 100644 --- 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 8f19d09ab..fd649b77a 100644 --- 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 e4c32887a..dbf3c62ae 100644 --- 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 2ac6cf40e..c83a59cbf 100644 --- 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 8f19d09ab..fd649b77a 100644 --- 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: