On 28/01/2006, at 10:41 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > You misunderstand the GPL. Section 2b) is pretty clear that any > application that contains GPL-licensed code must be, itself, > distributed > under the terms ofthe GPL
Quite so, but using the autotools does NOT include any GPL code in the resulting program. So this does not apply. All that is needed is to include in the source distribution a copy of GPL, note that GPL applies to some files in the sources and ensure that copyright notices at the heads of GPL files are intact. The compiler needs specific exemptions because parts of the GPLed runtime libraries are included in all compiled code. No part of the autotools ends up in the finished code. If it did, you would need m4 to run Python and you don't. Cheers Bill Northcott _______________________________________________ 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
