[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New Connection Dialog for Win32

[Andreas Kemnade <akemnade@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Raahul Kumar writes:
 > 
 > It's actually ironic that, because Microsoft has started putting licences on
 > Windows libraries now which basically forbid you from writing free or open
 > source using their Windows libraries. They're specifically trying to shut out
 > and control. They're monopolists.
That seems not to be valid for the common libraries freeciv uses
(wsock32,msvcrt,gdi32,comctl32,comdlg32,user32,kernel32,advapi32,shell32)
From comctl32 even the version which is installed without IE is enough.

So I don't see a problem for the distribution of windows binaries of
freeciv. 

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade