Licence confusion: distributing MSVC?71.DLL

Tom Wright tew24 at spam.ac.uk
Thu Mar 6 08:20:49 EST 2008


Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> Maybe this thread
>
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f8df5ed32b324a3f/
> can help.
> 
> This EULA doesn't apply to you, but to the Python developers, which are
> the actual Visual Studio users and have to comply with its license terms.
> You're just repackaging Python, your program, and other required
> components.
> In any case, I don't think MS cares; after all, you're promoting their OS
> and making life easier for Windows users.

Many thanks - that does indeed answer it.  I'd not been able to find the
EULA, but the bits quoted from it in the above discussion do answer the
question.


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