Re: Licensing of .DLL files

None of these licenses prohibit distribution, AFAIK.

You may have to offer source, etc. We normally just
bundle all source tar files for similar components that
we distribute with our code.

Dave Page wrote:
>
> On 20/3/06 13:17, "Vladimira Nitrova" <vnitrova(at)casestudio(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We'd like to distribute the following .DLL files within our software so
>> as our users don't have to install these files separately:
>> comerr32.dll, krb5_32.dll, libeay32.dll, libintl-2.dll, libiconv-2.dll
>> and ssleay32.dll.
>>
>> However, the problem is that we don't know who we shall contact to get
>> the permission or learn about the conditions for distribution.
>>
>> We know about BSD license to the libpq.dll file, however does it include
>> also the above mentioned libraries? Are the above mentioned files
>> covered by the PostgreSQL copyright as well?
>>
>> Could you please advise? Any tips will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>
> Unfortunately they are not covered by the BSD licence
>
> comerr32.dll & krb5_32.dll are part of MIT Kerberos, released under the MIT
> licence iirc - http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dist/index.html
>
> libintl-2.dll & libiconv-2.dll are from GNU Gettext, released under the LGPL
> licence (iirc) - http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
>
> libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll are from OpenSSL, released under the OpenSSL
> licence (again, IIRC) - http://www.openssl.org.
>
> All these components are technically optional though - if you don't need one
> or more, you can compile your own build of PostgreSQL without any one of
> them - see the --with-openssl, --enable-nls and --with-kerberos configure
> options.
>
> Regards, Dave.
>
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