Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Problems with MSVCR70.dll

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From: Bruno Haible <bruno@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:35:50 +0100
Gerald Combs wrote:
> >>Have a short look with the "Dependency Walker", intl.dll from
> >> gettext-runtime-0.13.bin.woe32.zip is requiring this dll.
> ...
> I verified that 0.12.1 doesn't require msvcr70.dll on my system.
> ...
> MS KB article 326922 recommends

Thanks a lot for this information. This means effectively that binaries
of GPLed or LGPLed programs, compiled with MSVC 7.0, cannot be distributed
without violating the GPL/LGPL: msvcr70.dll is not compatible with GPL/LGPL.

I used MSVC 7.0 for the gettext-0.13 binaries, as opposed to MSVC 6.0 for
the gettext-0.12.1 binaries; this explains the change for the Ethereal
program's users.

But now I'll have to remove the MSVC 7 built binaries from the ftp server,
and concentrate on mingw. You can distribute MSVC 6 built binaries instead,
if you've got the resources to build them.

Bruno