Re: Result: Octave-UPM on Windows :-(

[Alexander Hansen]

On 11/10/12 10:31 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 10 November 2012 12:30, Alexander Hansen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 11/10/12 10:14 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>>> On 10 November 2012 06:03, Jacob Dawid <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> The problem is that we are collecting experience with using VS and by doing
>>>> that we promote non-free software.
>>>
>>> There's also a practical problem with distribution here, since given
>>> Visual Studio's non-free nature, our users have to go and chase
>>> additional libraries on their own, since we are not free to give them
>>> those libraries ourselves.
>>>
>>> A similar problem occurs with Xcode and free distribution on Mac OS X.
>>
>> Except that Xcode *doesn't install libraries*.
> 
> It installs headers, right? What's in the "command line tools for
> Xcode" that we can't distribute freely?
> 
> - Jordi G. H.
> 

If you distribute binaries of Octave and dependencies built just using
Xcode and other libraries built with using it, then what you distribute
is totally self-contained.  You don't _need_ to distribute anything extra.

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Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
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