From: setera AT us DOT ibm DOT com (Craig Setera) Subject: Thoughts on redistributing DLL's and such 2 Sep 1998 11:14:23 -0700 Message-ID: <5010400026492126000002L062*.cygnus.gnu-win32@MHS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: I'm considering putting binaries out on my GIMP for Win32 web site. I have a few concerns about this, one of which is the redistribution of various prerequisites. In the short term, I'm probably just going to provide a zip or tar file with the binaries and some install instructions. In this case, I can just continue to point people to the appropriate precompiled required pieces. I could also provide local copies of only the required binaries (such as the 2 X11 client library DLL's required, as opposed to the entire X11 binary). When (if?) I ever get an installable version of this done, I would certainly want to include all of the prerequisites (except for the X-server itself). This leaves me with a licensing/acknowledgement concern. What is the usual policy for acknowledging these pieces and is it generally considered ok to bundle them? The following are the prerequisites that I could see potentially bundling: - The required X11 client libraries (R6.3 or R6.4) including X11.dll and X11ext.dll. - The X11 locale files - The GIF, PNG and JPEG library DLL's - A copy of cygwin32.dll?? (Would allow me to know which version people are using and that it works) Any thoughts/concerns would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Craig Craig Setera AS/400 Enterprise Java Development IBM Rochester setera AT us DOT ibm DOT com (507) 253-3387 - Tie: 553-3387 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".