Re: Fwd: Yet more Microsoft licensing issues

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drew einhorn wrote:
| I'm not sure, but I think in Microsoft's eyes
|
|      donation == piracy

There are specific mechanisms for transferring the software license from
one person to another in Microsoft's licenses.

| Need to read the licenses very, very carefully to make sure this does
| not trigger the Microsoft Software Gestapo.

The good news in this case is that VC 2003 was freely downloadable, well
the command line version I need anyway.

There has been extensive discussion of these issues in the various
Python mailing lists if anyone wants to read up about it.  IMNSHO the
Python folks should have stuck to a compiler that has its dependencies
already installed everywhere or that are freely (in the freedom sense of
the word) redistributable.

Roger
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