Python is better than free (was Re: GNU wars again)

[Markus Schaber]

Lee Morgan <unknown at lee-morgan.net> schrub:

> Cliff Wells <logiplexsoftware at earthlink.net> writes:
>> 
>> Actually, unless you were embedding Python in your app I don't think
>> this is true, since _your_ source would not in fact contain any GPL'd
>> code. Additionally, I expect the Python libraries would fall under
>> LGPL so using them would not "infect" your code.
>> 
> 
> This may be off topic but what does it mean to release a python
> module/package under LGPL?
> 
> An import is not a linking ... so does it mean I can't use it in a
> commercial product? I'd like to think I could use it if I released any
> changes I made to the module/package - but I don't think thats the
> case.

I would think that importing in python is some kind of linking. 
Dynamically and at run-time, but it is some sort of linking.

markus
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