On 9/10/07, Larry Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Greg Ewing wrote:
> If there's a link on the same web page that works
> when the user clicks on it, I don't think they're
> even going to notice the difference.
>
> They'll notice the difference when they want to redistribute Python, when
> they note the new licensing-based restrictions ("GMP must be in a
> user-replaceable shared library", "you must distribute the source to your
> GMP build").
If python.org agreed to host the GMP source, that would suffice for
all people distributing python binaries (they could then just refer to
the GMP source download as a link). The FSF explicitly states that
this kind of agreement satisfies that requirement of the license.
As for the user-replaceable shared library part, that's up for
considerable debate. It's unlikely that static linkage legally
creates a derivative work (that would be pretty unreasonable in
computer science terms), but it's never been tested in court, so
static linking would probably be out for distributors without a legal
department.
--
Nick
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