To paraphrase an applicant for a job vacancy we're currently filling when
asked to give an example of their problem solving skills:
A client had a problem with Windows XP on his laptop. I reformatted his hard
disk and installed Red Hat. Problem solved.
--
Dale Strickland-Clark
Riverhall Systems
sturlamolden wrote:
> Maybe someone have gone through the trouble and got a clear answer from
> Microsoft.
As far as companies go the EULA is as clear of an answer as you can
possibly hope for.
As for the original post, don't bother with it this issue, the chances
that MS will start harassing yo
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> As Fredrik Lundh says: Ask your lawyer. We cannot really interpret the
> Microsoft license for you (I can only give it to you in case you don't
> have it), and I can't formally give you permission to do copy something
> that Microsoft has the copyright to.
I wasn't askin
sturlamolden schrieb:
> Is further "distribution" okay if it is only accompanied by the python
> runtime DLL (as is the case when using Py2Exe) or should the entire
> python-2.4.4.msi from python.org be "distributed"?
As Fredrik Lundh says: Ask your lawyer. We cannot really interpret the
Microsoft
sturlamolden wrote:
> I certainly don't understand the EULA, and thus I cannot make sure that
> I lawyer understands it either. But I can certainly find a lawyer that
> charges an hour and pretends to understand it. I am sure buying a
> copy of VC7 is a lot cheaper.
When you buy that copy of
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
I am not intentionally posting FUD.
>"As long as you're using a standard Python build, you don't need to
>buy VC7 to [legally redistribute the C runtime]. The python.org team
>use a properly licensed VC7 to build Python, which turns Python into
>"licensee sof
sturlamolden wrote:
> On Windows, the standard Python 2.4 distro is compiled with Microsoft
> Visual C++ 2003 and is shipped with msvcr71.dll as a part of the binary
> installer. That is ok, as those who has a license for Microsoft Visual
> C++ 2003 is allowed to redistribute msvcr71.dll. With
On Windows, the standard Python 2.4 distro is compiled with Microsoft
Visual C++ 2003 and is shipped with msvcr71.dll as a part of the binary
installer. That is ok, as those who has a license for Microsoft Visual
C++ 2003 is allowed to redistribute msvcr71.dll. Without a license for
Microsoft Visu
