Re: gtk_file_chooser page faults (win32)

[Todd Fisher <toddf simosoftware com>]

Iago Rubio wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 09:27, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>  
>
> > And I really would like somebody who understands lawyerspeak to
> > read the license and make sure there are no clauses preventing the use
> > of the toolkit to build Free or Open Source software, or software that
> > competes with Microsoft's products, for instance...
> >    
>
> Well, not being a lawyer, I've sawn something that prevents you to use
> it in Open Source projects. At least it's my point of view.
>
> "(ii) that the Redistributables only operate in conjunction with
> Microsoft Windows platforms"
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/eula.aspx
>
> So if you compile your program with MS tools, and you include any MS
> header/object file to ensure your users will be able to compile/run it,
> it can't be used out of MS systems ( It can't be used on Linux/Wine as
> example ).
>
> It's against OS definition ( you can't restrict the use of software by
> platform ). 
>  
I would imagine that if your source code contained something as follows 
you would be ok:

#ifdef _MSC_VER
#include <windows.h> // this code is only allowed on an ms system
#endif

#ifdef __GNUC__
#include <unistd.h> // this is allowed anywhere
#endif

....

so compiling this source in windows will yes make it apply to the 
definition you described above.  But compiling it with
gcc will make it ok, since it does not include any ms components.

todd