[Python-Dev] Incorporating bsddb3

[Guido van Rossum]

> > It's similar to GPL's "copyleft".  I think it's no different from what
> > we do with e.g. GNU readline, so I think it's okay.  Redistributors of
> > Python in binary form will have to beware though.  I wonder if we're
> > on thin ice with the RPMs (since we don't clarify any of this)?
> 
> ... but we're not including readline in the standard Python
> distribution. Why would we want to include the database code
> itself in Python ?

Not in the source distro, but it will end up in the RPMs and other
binary distros.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)