Ronald Oussoren wrote: > Merging the two configure files might be a good idea anyway, that would > take away the need to run configure from setup.py. IANAL, but I don't > quite get how a GPL'd support script, if there is such a thing, in the > build machinery of an extension library would require that Python > itself is GPL'd.
Section 2b) of the GPL. If a part of the program is GPL, the entire program must be. Also, you must include the entire source of the program, including all build scripts (section 3). So just including the generated configure, and omitting some of its input, would also be a license violation. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
