GPL and Python modules.

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Mon Oct 25 14:10:49 EDT 2004


On 2004-10-25, Istvan Albert <ialbert at mailblocks.com> wrote:

>> Makes my _source_code_ a derived work, and therefore must be
>> GPL'd?  That just doesn't sound right.
>
> Well doesn't your work derive some functionality
> from the imported code?

Not until it's actually been imported.  That doesn't happen
until runtime.

> Does your code work without the import?

That depend's on your definition of "work".

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