Les Mikesell wrote:
> Leen Besselink wrote:
>>>> So Les, what do you think ? If you look at my current webpage ?
>>> I don't know enough about GPLv3 to comment, but I'd expect it to 
>>> prohibit including any portions that can't be distributed under GPL 
>>> terms like v2 does.  Dynamic linking to expected OS libs is probably OK 
>>> if you don't have to include them.
>>>
>> I don't include the libraries (I did include something the first time
>> in the buildfiles vss.tgz, which was a mistaken), the libraries it uses
>> are already installed with the default windows install.
> 
> If you don't actually include any code through static linking and it 
> doesn't require an extra dynamic library to be installed then you are 
> probably OK.  If the GPL prohibited using the stock system libraries and 
> kernel interfaces you wouldn't be able to the standard version of rsync 
> on windows either.  The restrictions are about code that needs to be 

That was also my thought.

> included and thus falling under the 'work as a whole' license 
> requirement.  I was assuming that the SDK included (and required) 
> library code that wasn't shipped with windows.
> 

The SDK just includes the include and library-files the compiler
needs to know how to build it.

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