Re: Distribution

[John Mills <johnmi cyberone com au>]

Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi> wrote, in reply to Martin Dolezal:

> ... apparently is not Free Software. That is not a problem, you can still
> use dynamically linked (DLL) LGPL libraries just fine.

>> You have to distribute libraries source code if you are asked to do so by somebody

> And not just "somebody", but somebody who has acquired the
> corresponding binaries....
...
> Note that there is no need to provide "technical support" though, as
> long as you distribute the source code in a reasonable format, in the
> same format as you or whoever built the library binaries used it, with
> the same configury and makefilery etc,

Hmm. I finally got my Win32 cross-compile working on Linux, and thought I understood 
this, but now I'm not so sure.

So if I want to distribute a closed-source GTK+/Cairo Windows app, I can package, 
for instance, my .EXE and Tor Lillqvist's Win DLLs, but I must include the DLL 
source and build environment?
Could I fulfil that by packaging Tor's bundle from 
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.16/gtk+-bundle_2.16.6-20091013_win32.zip ?

I remember reading somewhere that I needed to ship my object code, so that it could be re-linked 
against newer or changed versions of the libraries. Is that true for GTK+ and associated libraries?

Alternatively, can I comply with the LGPL by shipping just my EXE and require the recipient to 
acquire the DLLS, say from the GIMP installers?

Thank you
John Mills