Re: Licensing and Windows compilation

[Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost>]

Hi Aaron!

> I had a couple of questions. First, I wanted to check what kind of  
> license libzip uses. I did not see a license document with the  
> distribution, though the comments in the source files imply a BSD-style 
> license. Would someone mind confirming this for me?

libzip is under a BSD license.
The next release will include a separate "LICENSE" file to make it
absolutely clear -- you can already find it on
http://hg.nih.at/libzip?fd=dc06add229bb;file=LICENSE;style=raw

One replacement file, mkstemp.c, is mostly written by someone else and
thus has a separate license (but also BSD). It is only needed on
platforms that don't provide mkstemp() -- I think this means Windows
as well.

> Also, I plan to use libzip in an application that compiles in Windows  
> (Visual Studio). Is there anything I should keep in mind when compiling 
> libzip under Windows? Note that, if it makes things easier and the 
> license permits it, I'll probably add the source files to my project 
> rather than compile a separate library/dll.

You should probably try latest HEAD from mercurial instead of the
latest release.  I haven't tried under Windows myself yet, perhaps
someone else can give some hints?
 Thomas