Public Domain Python

Thorsten Roskowetz glowstars at gmx.de
Mon Sep 11 13:57:27 EDT 2000


"Martin von Loewis" <loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> 1. "I know I'm breaking the GPL by integrating readline with Python
>     in my RedHat 7.5 distribution. However, since Python is free
>     software, I doubt the authors of the GPL will sue me - especially
>     as the FSF is the author of readline."

IANAL but AFAIK the GPL does not stop you from linking any GPLed libs
to any GPL incompatible licensed code.  It DOES however make it impossible
to distribute such binaries.  So it's RedHat who's in trouble ;-)





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