[Geany] Recent Windows changes

[Enrico Tröger]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:25:42 -0600, "Jeff Pohlmeyer"
<yetanothergeek at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 31, 2007 6:48 AM, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > But what about the shfolder.dll? Should we and are we allowed
> > to redistribute it with Geany(dunno about all the licencing
> > stuff). Or should we just mention it in the README file with a
> > link to the Microsoft site
> 
> Well, I'm not a lawyer, but don't think it would be a good
> idea to distribute a closed-source DLL with a GPL program.
I agree, that's why I asked. We just leave it out and we are save.

> Maybe you can mention that it's needed, but the download link
> from MS is no longer valid. I did manage to track it down to
> here: http://tinyurl.com/3fl9s - but microsoft's website has
> a bad habit of moving things around, and I would guess that
> download is probably not going to be around much longer anyway.
Ok, thanks for the information. I'll add a note somehwhere in the next
days.

> > (I really hope there aren't that much Win9x users out there)?
> 
> Maybe we could convince them they should upgrade
> the missing DLL at http://www.ubuntu.com/ :-)
Hehe, good idea ;-).


Happy new year,
Enrico

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