Against PEP 240

[Oleg Broytmann]

Hello!

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Alex Martelli wrote:
> OK, but gmpy doesn't come with Python and no doubt never will
> (as it relies on GMP, which is LGPL'd at least).

   There is no problem including gmpy into standard distribution. There is
already mpz that relies on the same GMP. No problem.
   You cannot distribute GPL'd binaries without source code. There is no
problem distributing Python source code that relies on GPL'd code.

Oleg.
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