Why gmp is not in the standard library?

[John J. Lee]

Brian Kelley <bkelley at wi.mit.edu> writes:

> Skip Montanaro wrote:
> > Bdb's license is not GPL:
> >     http://www.sleepycat.com/download/oslicense.html
> 
> I stand corrected, it makes perfect sense that the Berkeley DB should
> be released using the Berkeley license :)  I don't know why I thought
> otherwise.
> 
> That being said, wasn't there some issue with making the Python
> License GPL compatible for issues like these?

Yes.

"GPL-compatible" is very different from "GPL", of course.


John