Re: Performance issues on Windows, suggests a MSVC build

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-Jun-2011, Michael Goffioul 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

I don't see where Bruno claimed that simply linking with the MSVC runtime
library was a problem, only that distributing them in the same binary
installer is not allowed by the GPL.

jwe