[OctDev] No symbolic package in future (Windows/VC++) releases

[John W. Eaton]

On 20-Apr-2009, David Bateman wrote:

| This case definitely isn't unique to CLN/GINAC, though my personal 
| opinion is that the VC++ libraries are part of the compilation process 
| and if a static build was used there wouldn't be any question so I don't 
| see why the case is different with the libraries distributed with the 
| installer.
| 
| In any case from what I understood from this thread the CLN author won't 
| accept any of our muses as evidence one way or the other and his 
| position puts in doubt the use of VC++ for any binary GPL distribution, 
| CLN, Octave or otherwise, so we should bump this to licensing at fsf.org 
| and get a definitive opinion.

It seems there is already a FAQ about this issue:

  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WindowsRuntimeAndGPL

so I still don't understand what the problem is.

jwe