Easy IE installer script

[Boaz Harrosh]

I have an Idea

What is the version of VC++ you have?

What if you write and compile let's say, a small app that uses MFC and 
IE, using the VC++ tool-chain. Than you are a legal distributer of M$ 
software, end of problem. Do you want that I send you a small windows 
app that uses MFC and embeds an IE control that displays an embedded 
HTML page. This could be the final step in the installation where you 
actually test the installation. It can be a nice HTML with links to the 
site and other nice links like winehq.org

About a windows only platforms. They had such an illegal clause in VC6 
but they fixed it fast in SP3 and up. If you have VC6 than the SP5 is 
free (I think).

By the way, I'll check it later, but I think that if you use IE in your 
application than you are allowed to also distribute the IE setup, 
provided that you use the original M$ setup where the user presses on 
the Agree to the M$ EULA

Mike Hearn wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 21:29, Ivan Leo Murray-Smith wrote:
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>>They come with apps because the vendors of those apps have a license from M$ to
>>redistribute them. You need such a license before you can redistribute them.
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>What about people who redistribute those apps in turn?
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>For instance, if I write a public domain program that uses the MFCs, and
>include MFC40.DLL and upload it, then somebody else emails it to a
>friend - are they redistributing without a license? I don't know.
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