Re: Minified javascript files

[Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:43:51 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:03:23PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> > So yes, we have the problem for precompiled windows DLLs in a source
>> > package.
>> 
>> Interesting, that issue seems rather common.  Maybe a lintian check
>> could alarm packagers of this?
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/source-contains-prebuilt-windows-
binary.html

This includes:

tcltrf (source)
 * win/msvcrt.dll

This is part of Windows. I don't expect Debian has been granted 
permission to distribute it. :)

I wonder how many of these DLLs and EXEs link together code licensed 
under the GPL with versions of the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime that does 
not ship with Windows (and hence qualify for the 'major parts of the 
operating system' exception)?

«i686-w64-mingw32-objdump -p foo.dll | grep 'DLL Name'» will output a 
list of dependant DLLs. The bad ones to look for match at least «msvc[pr]
[0-9]+.dll» or «mfc[0-9]+.dll» (case-insensitively). I'd do this myself, 
but I don't have the hard drive space nor the bandwidth here, sorry.

Regards,

-- 
Sam Morris