On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Tristan Van Berkom <tris...@upstairslabs.com> wrote: > Since these particular LGPL sources are already made available by > other parties (i.e. GTK+ & friends by GNOME etc) - I believe > that you do not need to host these files directly - but must somehow > at least link to these sources when distributing your app
It's not strictly a matter of linkage. Here's the deal: 1) My code is written in Pike, a high level language. So my application is all plain text. You can see it all here: https://github.com/Rosuav/Gypsum 2) The implementation of Pike is C code. In its source form, it's also plain text. But Pike is GPL/LGPL/MPL, so linking against an LGPL library is nice and easy. 3) Pike for Windows works fine with 2.24.10. I've tested it and all's working fine. But that's me personally downloading the GTK DLLs and dropping them in. The very easiest solution for my users would be for me to distribute a .ZIP file of eighteen DLLs, which my app can fetch and deploy. But that would require me to make the source of those DLLs available, and AFAICT pointing to gtk.org does *not* suffice. The next best would be to write something that fetches the binaries from gtk.org and deploys them. And that's where I started reading a whole lot of GPL FAQs about bundled installers, and things start to get messy. ChrisA _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
