Calling GPL code from a Python application

[Mike Meyer]

Heiko Wundram <modelnine at bit-bukket.org> writes:
> The stance the FSF (and it's lawyers) take on this is that it is illegal to
> dynamically link applications that are not under a GPL-compatible license
> to GPL works

I doubt that, because it's simply not true. I can use GPL'ed code any
way I want to - that's part of the point of the GPL. I can change it
however I want, print it in whatever font I want on whatever material
I want, hang the result on the wall, and - most importantly - link it
with whatever other code I want.

What I *can't* do is distribute it (or work derived from it, etc.)
unless the entire work being distributed is under the GPL (unless the
license has changed recently, *not* a GPL-compatible license, but the
GPL itself), and meets the requirements of the that license. In
particular, if I distribute an application that has to be dynamically
linked with a GPL'ed library to run, I need to distribute my
application under the terms of the GPL.

        <mike
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