GPL and Python modules.

[Michael Hobbs]

Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> Customers seem to have no problem with not getting source code,
> but once you _do_ give them source code then you have to
> support it.  Ignoring customers when they ask questions about
> the source code has always proven in past experience to be "not
> an option."

My reading of the GPL indicates that you don't have to supply source
code along with your software; you just have to supply a note indicating
that the source is freely available upon request. One way to socially
engineer this situation is to not include the source by default. If
one of your customers is savvy enough to then request the source, that
customer should also be savvy enough to realize that you won't provide
support for any modifications to the source. It should also be easy
enough to explicitly state the limitations on your support at the time
the request is made.

- Mike