Windows Binaries for GMP 4.2.2

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2007-09-21 01:44:48 +0200, Michael Abshoff wrote:
> [begin license text]
> Licensing of Windows Builds of GMP and MPFR using Microsoft Visual Studio
> 2005
[...]
> COMPONENTS ON WHICH THIS DISTRIBUTION DEPENDS
> =============================================
> 
> The following list provides the details of the components on which this
> distribution depends (they are not distributed with this package and
> must be obtained separately if needed).
> 
> 1.  GMP
> -------
> 
>     License:            LGPL 3
>     Source Web Site:    http://gmplib.org/
> 
> 2.  MPFR
> --------
> 
>     License:            LGPL 2.1
>     Source Web Site:    http://www.mpfr.org/

GMP is distributed under LGPL v3 *or later*, and MPFR is distributed
under LGPL v2.1 *or later*. As an MPFR build contains bits of GMP
(from gmp.h, whose license is LGPL v3+, due to macros, in particular
mpn inlines) and LGPL v2.1 and LGPL v3 are incompatible, this implies
that an MPFR library that was built against GMP 4.2.2 can only be
distributed under LGPL v3 or later.

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