Re: Licensing questions re win32 dll redistributions

Gareth Bryan <gareth.bryan@gmail.com> wrote on 07/06/2005 02:47:22 AM:

> Hi,Not being oto hot myself on licensing issues, can anyone explain to
> me why it is that the distribution of subclipse can contain win32 dlls
> from openssl, apache, bdb etc without including the relevant licenses
> from those projects?
>
> The reason I ask is that my application would like also to distribute
> the relevant win32 dlls to aid out-of-box experience on windows - and
> I was trying to track down all relevant licenses I'd need to get legal
> approval for.

I do not have any good answers for you. We are really re-distributing the
binaries that Subversion provides, and they apparently do not pass along
the licenses. I imagine that is because they do not "officially" provide
any binaries?

Maybe you should ask on their users@ list.

Mark

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Received on Wed Jul 6 22:58:06 2005