Legal advise on including Visual C++ Redistributable package into ODBC installer

[Igor Sapego-2]

Hi guys,

I need your advice here. As some of you probably know we have
Windows installers for ODBC in our binary releases, so users won't need
to build Ignite C++ if all they want is to install and use our ODBC driver.
However, as we build driver with MSVC 10 when we are preparing our
binary release, user should have Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable package
for it to work properly. If they do not, it just do not work, not giving any
human-readable errors, which is very confusing to a user.

So my idea was to check for required package during installation and
give user a download link to a proper package. However, on the WiX
website there are articles on how to include the package into installer [1].
So I've thought that maybe this is even the better way to solve a problem.

So thus is my question, is it OK from the legal standpoint, if we will
distribute
installer, that includes Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable package? We are not
going to put any binaries under the source control, of course.

Can anyone help?

[1] -
http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/howtos/redistributables_and_install_checks/install_vcredist.html

Best Regards,
Igor

[Dmitriy Pavlov]

Hi Igor,

I'm not sure if someone in the community can know an answer to this
question.

I can share a page with resolved legal questions here:
https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b

But I think it may require confirmation from Apache Legal
http://www.apache.org/legal/
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LEGAL/summary
http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-legal

Sincerely,
Dmitriy Pavlov

ср, 24 окт. 2018 г. в 18:40, Igor Sapego <[hidden email]>:

> Hi guys,
>
> I need your advice here. As some of you probably know we have
> Windows installers for ODBC in our binary releases, so users won't need
> to build Ignite C++ if all they want is to install and use our ODBC driver.
> However, as we build driver with MSVC 10 when we are preparing our
> binary release, user should have Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable package
> for it to work properly. If they do not, it just do not work, not giving
> any
> human-readable errors, which is very confusing to a user.
>
> So my idea was to check for required package during installation and
> give user a download link to a proper package. However, on the WiX
> website there are articles on how to include the package into installer
> [1].
> So I've thought that maybe this is even the better way to solve a problem.
>
> So thus is my question, is it OK from the legal standpoint, if we will
> distribute
> installer, that includes Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable package? We are
> not
> going to put any binaries under the source control, of course.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> [1] -
>
> http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/howtos/redistributables_and_install_checks/install_vcredist.html
>
> Best Regards,
> Igor
>

[dmagda]

Dmitry,

Thanks for the pointers!

Would you be interested in sorting this out for the community by talking to
our ASF-mates who should know?

--
Denis

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 3:21 AM Dmitriy Pavlov <[hidden email]>
wrote:

> Hi Igor,
>
> I'm not sure if someone in the community can know an answer to this
> question.
>
> I can share a page with resolved legal questions here:
> https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b
>
> But I think it may require confirmation from Apache Legal
> http://www.apache.org/legal/
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LEGAL/summary
> http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-legal
>
> Sincerely,
> Dmitriy Pavlov
>
> ср, 24 окт. 2018 г. в 18:40, Igor Sapego <[hidden email]>:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I need your advice here. As some of you probably know we have
> > Windows installers for ODBC in our binary releases, so users won't need
> > to build Ignite C++ if all they want is to install and use our ODBC
> driver.
> > However, as we build driver with MSVC 10 when we are preparing our
> > binary release, user should have Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable package
> > for it to work properly. If they do not, it just do not work, not giving
> > any
> > human-readable errors, which is very confusing to a user.
> >
> > So my idea was to check for required package during installation and
> > give user a download link to a proper package. However, on the WiX
> > website there are articles on how to include the package into installer
> > [1].
> > So I've thought that maybe this is even the better way to solve a
> problem.
> >
> > So thus is my question, is it OK from the legal standpoint, if we will
> > distribute
> > installer, that includes Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable package? We are
> > not
> > going to put any binaries under the source control, of course.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> >
> > [1] -
> >
> >
> http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/howtos/redistributables_and_install_checks/install_vcredist.html
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Igor
> >
>

[Dmitriy Pavlov]

Hi Igor, Denis,

Feel free to CC me in every request to a mailing list(s) or mention LEGAL
ticket you'll create..

I would be happy to help, but it is not likely I would have spare cycles to
drive this topic.

Sincerely,
Dmitriy Pavlov

чт, 25 окт. 2018 г. в 22:15, Denis Magda <[hidden email]>:

> Dmitry,
>
> Thanks for the pointers!
>
> Would you be interested in sorting this out for the community by talking to
> our ASF-mates who should know?
>
> --
> Denis
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 3:21 AM Dmitriy Pavlov <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Igor,
> >
> > I'm not sure if someone in the community can know an answer to this
> > question.
> >
> > I can share a page with resolved legal questions here:
> > https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b
> >
> > But I think it may require confirmation from Apache Legal
> > http://www.apache.org/legal/
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LEGAL/summary
> > http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-legal
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Dmitriy Pavlov
> >
> > ср, 24 окт. 2018 г. в 18:40, Igor Sapego <[hidden email]>:
> >
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > I need your advice here. As some of you probably know we have
> > > Windows installers for ODBC in our binary releases, so users won't need
> > > to build Ignite C++ if all they want is to install and use our ODBC
> > driver.
> > > However, as we build driver with MSVC 10 when we are preparing our
> > > binary release, user should have Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable
> package
> > > for it to work properly. If they do not, it just do not work, not
> giving
> > > any
> > > human-readable errors, which is very confusing to a user.
> > >
> > > So my idea was to check for required package during installation and
> > > give user a download link to a proper package. However, on the WiX
> > > website there are articles on how to include the package into installer
> > > [1].
> > > So I've thought that maybe this is even the better way to solve a
> > problem.
> > >
> > > So thus is my question, is it OK from the legal standpoint, if we will
> > > distribute
> > > installer, that includes Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable package? We
> are
> > > not
> > > going to put any binaries under the source control, of course.
> > >
> > > Can anyone help?
> > >
> > > [1] -
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/howtos/redistributables_and_install_checks/install_vcredist.html
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Igor
> > >
> >
>