py2exe

On 17/08/2010 17:28, Alexey Luchko wrote:
> Hi, everyone!
>
> I've found that python 2.7 installer being run without privileges to write
> to windows system folders puts msvcr90.dll and Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest
> to the python's target directory.  So it's easy to distribute them further.
>
> Btw, is it legal to distribute them?
This is a question which comes regularly, search the archive for e.g. 
msvcr71.dll.

My point of view (but I am not a lawyer) is that I distribute Python and 
it contains MSVCR stuff, so it is legal as the Python team can 
distribute it.

You could also get MS Visual Studio which allows you to distribute the 
msvcr stuff.

Werner

On 17.08.2010 19:38, Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
> On 17/08/2010 17:28, Alexey Luchko wrote:
>> Hi, everyone!
>>
>> I've found that python 2.7 installer being run without privileges to write
>> to windows system folders puts msvcr90.dll and Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest
>> to the python's target directory.  So it's easy to distribute them further.
>>
>> Btw, is it legal to distribute them?
>
> My point of view (but I am not a lawyer) is that I distribute Python and
> it contains MSVCR stuff, so it is legal as the Python team can
> distribute it.

The same do we.  I've just asked if smth has changed since msvcr71.


> You could also get MS Visual Studio which allows you to distribute the
> msvcr stuff.

I still have win2k, but ms visual studio 2008 requires at least win xp.


Thanks :)
--
Alex