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I've used a few F/OSS libraries in my commercial application. As per their licenses, I am obligated to include their source codes along with my VS2008 application. This is my first time making a "real" commercial application, and I would appreciate some advice on how best to go about including their source codes.

I don't want to package them as zip files alongside my installed. I still want my installer to be a single file.

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You can add a zip file of the third party source code as part of your installer.

As far as I know, there is no best-practice for distribution of open source code with applications that use them.

Oded
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Which licenses are the libraries under? The GPL for one says that you can just supply an offer for any relevant source. Something like "this app uses library x which is licenced under the GPL, you can download the source from here or write to blah enclosing £x and your address"

dsas