<html><head></head><body>Hi,<br><br>I'm not suggesting anything. I'm just pointing out that cross-compiling GPLv2 is legally hard, as opposed to natively compiling GPLv2 or cross-compiling GPLv3. And using emulators makes it harder.<br><br>And I don't see what having allegedly done something for 7 years has to do with being legal or not.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Le 15 mai 2020 08:23:51 GMT+03:00, Steve Lhomme <robux4@ycbcr.xyz> a écrit :<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 2020-05-14 17:08, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Le torstaina 14. toukokuuta 2020, 13.31.56 EEST Steve Lhomme a écrit :<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">On 2020-05-13 12:24, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi,<br><br> The GPL does not say that you have to have the source of the build<br> tools. That's just an indirect consequence of the tools themselves being<br> under copyleft license.<br><br> What the GPL says is that each must fit at least one of the condition:<br> A) comes with OS,<br> B) is freely provided by the binary distributor,<br></blockquote>What do you call the binary distributor ?<br>We provide the wix 3.5 to make the MSI package here<br><a href="https://download.videolan.org/contrib/wix/wix-3.5.msi">https://download.videolan.org/contrib/wix/wix-3.5.msi</a><br></blockquote>And the rules to install and build with it on whatever the cross-compiling<br>system is (Linux amd64, I guess)? not to speak of the sources and rebuild<br>instruction from that if applicable...<br><br>Cross-compiling (L)GPLv2 is insane enough as it is. Depending on an emulator<br>and non-native build tools is utterly insane.<br></blockquote><br>If you are suggesting win32 builds should be built under win32, I'm all <br>for it. But we know it's not going to happen, nor dropping windows support.<br><br>This patch doesn't add new constraints on what it takes to build the <br>MSI, so your comments don't seem to relate to the patch itself. If <br>anything it makes it easier to build under Windows.<br><br>MSI building was introduced in 2013 and was already requiring wine.<hr>vlc-devel mailing list<br>To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options:<br><a href="https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel">https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel</a></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Envoyé de mon appareil Android avec Courriel K-9 Mail. Veuillez excuser ma brièveté.</body></html>