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

[Alexander Hansen]

On 11/10/12 10:55 AM, Benjamin Abbott wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Benjamin Abbott <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 10, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
>> <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10 November 2012 12:30, Alexander Hansen
>>> <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>>> On 11/10/12 10:14 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>>>>> On 10 November 2012 06:03, Jacob Dawid <address@hidden
>>>>> <mailto: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.
>>
>> I've been meaning look at the copyright for the headers used by Xcode,
>> but keep forgetting.  Has anyone taken a peek?
>>
>> Ben
> 
> A google from my phone found this.
> 
> http://kennethreitz.com/xcode-gcc-and-homebrew.html
> 
> Ben

Quoting one of our no-longer active folks:

"
I'm not sure if this is true about osx-gcc-installer. But what I do
know is that osx-gcc-installer is definitely Non-Free. It's not built
from source, but produced by extracting files from Apple's installer.
A number of these files are not Free, for example the AVFoundation
headers. I'm not even sure why it would be distributable, except for
the pragmatic reason that Apple doesn't seem to have cracked down on
it (yet).
"

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