Re: Performance issues on Windows, suggests a MSVC build

[Michael Goffioul]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Michael Goffioul
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 2011/6/22 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
>> The GPL FAQ entry that was quoted in the original message asked about
>> dynamically linking with the MSVC runtime and apparently that is OK.
>> As far as I know, that has always been the case.  The issue we were
>> faced with was whether it was OK to distribute the MSVC libraries along
>> with the Octave binary for Windows.
>
> No John, the guy went one step further, claiming that even linking against
> the runtime libs was violating the GPL. I only got the FSF clarification
> in 2009.
>
> For reference, look here:
> http://www.ginac.de/pipermail/cln-list/2009-April/thread.html

And I think that what p....ed me off the most is the fact that the
whole story started because I pointed the GiNaC developers to
errors in their ise of STL code and was proposing a patch.
Nice reward...

Michael.