On Jan 18, 2006, at 8:24 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > The import of the Ghostscript case is that the FSF considers a > Makefile stanza clearly intended to cause linkage to a GPL library, > even if optional and supplied by the user, to create a work derived > from that library. A "GNU readline"-enabled Python is derived from > GNU readline, and must be distributed under the GPL or not distributed > at all. I assume that the former is not acceptable to Python, and the > latter is clearly undesirable.
In that case, what I think we ought to do is not add the DP paths (i.e. /opt/local) to setup.py specifically to get its readline, but instead to pick up any libraries that happen to be in DP in preference to those in OSX by default. If that /happens/ to cause a different version of readline to be used as a side-effect, then oops! sorry, but so be it. -Barry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
