On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 11:20, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > I was looking at the MSVC EULA's again. In order for you to nail this > completely. The M$ license says that you cannot distribute a package > that equals to the sum of it's parts. You can't just distribute IE MFC > and so on just by themselves. They must be as a part of a none-trivial > application with a distinguished new functionality that uses the > redistributable .
Yikes. That sounds highly dubious indeed - who defines "non-trivial"? Are they really allowed to enforce this kind of garbage? > If you want I can send you a flash game. (copyrighted > to a friend) that can be embedded inside an IE control.Than you have > installed a game not Just IE and MFC, but you do need them to run the game. Well, that might be an idea, but I get the distinct feeling that we're playing games here (no pun intended) - dancing around the wording of a probably unenforceable document makes me a bit nervous. Who says a game counts as non-trivial?
