From 3b9b79cfb5c504477efa3f781c9252fe66bfb32d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robin Dunn Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 13:16:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] README updates for cairo-msw --- packaging/cairo-msw/README.txt | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/packaging/cairo-msw/README.txt b/packaging/cairo-msw/README.txt index 43a80a08..3319a8dc 100644 --- a/packaging/cairo-msw/README.txt +++ b/packaging/cairo-msw/README.txt @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ This folder contains Cairo header files and DLLs for Windows, which enable building Cairo support in wxWidgets on Windows, (in wx.GraphicsContext) as -well as using Cairo from Python, integrated with wxPython using the -wx.lib.wxcairo package. The DLLs will be included by default in the builds for -Windows. +well as using Cairo directly from Python, integrated with wxPython using the +wx.lib.wxcairo package. These DLLs will be included by default in the binary +builds for Windows. These files were originally extracted from the installers available from the following locations: @@ -10,3 +10,9 @@ following locations: http://gtk-win.sourceforge.net/home/index.php/Main/Downloads https://github.com/tschoonj/GTK-for-Windows-Runtime-Environment-Installer +Note that the projects represented by these DLLs are released under the LGPL +or similar licenses. The DLLs are able to be included with wxPython because +they are not statically linked, and because end users are able to replace them +with newer or rebuilt versions if desired so long as they use compatible a +API/ABI, (for example a replacement libcairo would need to be compatible with +Cairo 1.10.2). Source code is available at their respective project pages.