Question

I am planning to use py2exe to make an application developped with Python 2.6.

It seems that my app need the VC redistribuables : http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/Tutorial#Step5

I’ve read this tutorial and the redistribuables license agreement and I am not sure if I can freely redistribute these files with my program. (I don’t have VS2008 license)

Can I bundle the redistribs into an installer and make the installation transparent for the user or do they have to download the files by their own from Microsoft website?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I think you should be fine if you simply include the installation of vcredist_x86.exe into your installation procedure (according to the document you linked to):

Either you can instruct your users to
download and run this themselves, or
you could create an installer for your
application (see Step 6 below), that
includes vcredist_x86.exe (which is
itself redistributable by anyone), and
then run that as part of your
application installation

Mind you that I’m not a lawyer and thus this is not legal advice.