Re: [Mingw-users] Linking against MSVCR71.DLL

[Tim S. <sta...@ve...>]

wil...@be... wrote:

> Brian Dessent wrote:
>
>> Furthermore, it may consitute a license violation of the GPL if you
>> were to link GPL code to MSVCR71.DLL because it would be creating a
>> combined work that is not GPL. The only reason that this is
>> permissable when linking to MSVCRT.DLL is that the GPL contains an
>> exception clause for "components of thee operating system" which
>> MSVCRT is but the other versions are not.
>
> So I may have to explode my head :) .  I'll wait until Sir Richard 
> knocks on the door.
>

Would this be a valid work around?
Write an LGPL DLL that links to MSVCR71.DLL.
Then link the GPL DLL to the LGPL DLL.
Or, would that not fix the licence issue?

Tim S