Re: Windows installer for a GPL C++ program

[Carlo de Falco]

On 11 May 2009, at 11:21, Carlo de Falco wrote:

> On 11 May 2009, at 10:05, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Francesco Potorti` <address@hidden 
> > > wrote:
> > > I suspect the Qt libraries are at least partly written in C++ and
> > > distributed with a Windows installer.  Unfortunately I don't know  
> > > how
> > > easy is to ask them for advice on this matter.
> > >
> > > --
> >
> > However, the GPL 3 license of Qt includes a special exception by
> > Trolltech that is likely to be significant here.
> > Also, does the QT installer actually come with MSVC++ runtime  
> > libraries bundled?
>
>
> An example of a GPLed application which distributes a Windows  
> installer might be
>
> http://www.inkscape.org/
>
> It seems to be "GPLv2 or later" and the source code is at least in  
> part written in C++.
>
> I have no idea about how they compile the windows binaries or about  
> the libraries they bundle with the installer
> but they have a set of mailing list and forums which seem pretty  
> active so someone might want to ask them there.
> I don't believe I'm the right person to do this as I know nothing  
> about Windows or MSVC++ as I don't use either.
>
> c.

another project with the same characteristics is

http://filezilla-project.org/

c.