Hi there, I have a question about whether I'm legally allowed to redistribute MSVCR70.dll. The situation is this: I'm writing an open-source application in Delphi, released under Mozilla Public Licence 1.1. There's a Delphi hook called JSBridge that would allow me to use the Mozilla JavaScript engine (SpiderMonkey). JSBridge requires MSVCR70.dll. I don't own any Microsoft development tools myself. Microsoft tell MSVC programmers to redistribute it as a matter of course: <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326922> and you can find it available for download all over the Web: <http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?msvcr70> but I'm trying to figure out if it's OK for me to package it with my app, when I don't own any MS development tools. Does anyone know the rules which govern redistribution of MSVCR70.dll? All help appreciated, Martin
"I don't own any Microsoft development tools myself." There's your problem ;-) I think you can redistribute - but like you I came up short when trying to find explicit legal permission for them to be included with non Microsoft developed projects. The fact that they are called "Redistributable Files" is IMHO you sign that you can. As a practical matter I doubt Microsoft cares if you redistribute their Redistributable files ;-) If they did, they would call them "non-distributable files". In researching the answer to your question, I've discovered that you aren't the first one to ask this question. In this case, I wouldn't spend much time trying to get a legal answer. Make sure you aren't blatantly violating Microsoft's IP and you'll be fine. If you want to CYA, email Microsoft Legal.
