[Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

[Bob Ippolito]

On Apr 21, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Alex Martelli wrote:

> On 4/21/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>    ...
>>> GMP is covered by LGPL, so must any such derivative work
>>
>> But the wrapper is just using GMP as a library, so
>> it shouldn't be infected with LGPLness, should it?
>
> If a lawyer for the PSF can confidently assert that gmpy is not a
> derivative work of GMP, I'll have no problem changing gmpy's
> licensing. But I won't make such a call myself: for example, gmpy.c
> #include's gmp.h and uses (==expands) some of the C macros there
> defined -- doesn't that make gmpy.o a derived work of gmp.h?
>
> I'm quite confident that the concept of "derived work" would not apply
> if gmpy.so only accessed a gmp.so (or other kinds of dynamic
> libraries), but I fear the connection is stronger than that, so,
> prudently, I'm assuming the "derived work" status until further
> notice.

Well we already wrap readline, would this really be any worse?   
Readline is GPL.

-bob