From: "Mark J. Reed" <mreed@...>
Date: 2004-04-20T11:14:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Free VC++ Compiler

Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> writes:
>No. The license forbids to use it to build and distribute GPL
>applications. 

It does no such thing; that's just /. FUD.  What it forbids you to do is
redistribute the components if doing so would put them under the GPL, which 
seems reasonable: "you can use our compiler for free, but you can't make
our DLLs fall under the GPL by redistributing them with GPL code."

-Mark