visual c++ licensing issues

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 21:43:17 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 21:14:54 UTC, Stephen Jones 
> wrote:
>> Isn't there a problem using Microsoft's visual studio to link 
>> for 64 bit in that visual studio 2013 is free only for 
>> enrolled students?
>
> Recent versions of Visual Studio Express (which is free for
> everyone) should work fine.

Additionally, the C runtime is under its own license (see 
redist.txt), so as long as you link to it dynamically, I believe 
your program should contain little-to-none proprietary MS code.