Re: [Mingw-users] Including GDI+ in MinGW

[Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Keith Marshall wrote:
> On Thursday 15 May 2008 18:42, Doug Schaefer wrote:
>   
>>> Which then prevents you from distributing a GPL licensed source as
>>> the two can't be used together.  You can privately use such a
>>> combination all you want but you cannot distribute a GPL source
>>> that has used a MS EULA library.
>>>       
>> Is that a restriction in the MS EULA? I don't see the GPL restricting
>> that? But then IANAL.
>>     
>
> The GPL requires you to distribute full source, to allow an end user to 
> rebuild your application from scratch.  If part of that source resides 
> in headers which you do not have the right to redistribute, how can you 
> possibly comply with the GPL, without infringing the EULA of those 
> headers?
>
> Regards,
> Keith.
>
>   

Actually with that argument, GPL would be restrict you from building 
against any proprietary C run-time including Solaris, AIX, etc. So I'm 
not sure this is actually restricted. But then I could be missing 
something. At either rate, GPL apps do not redistribute all the headers 
they use, of course.

Getting back to GDI+, I thought one of the issues we had was linking 
against MSVC built C++. Is there a workaround for this?

Doug

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