Brendan Simon (eTRIX) wrote:
If you want to create a standalone app, you must install a standard
python (and the necessary modules), as you can't distribute Apple's.
Really ?!? I think you may be serious !!!
Well, it's certainly true that py2app is designed that way. In any case,
if you want something that can really act as a stand-alone, you don't
want it to be built with a Python that only works on 10.5.
If it's true it is close to
unbelievable. Isn't python "free" as a general rule ???
This is a stinky thing that MS would do !!!
Apple has done no shortage of such "stinky things" they are NOT an
open-source company by any means.
The "copyright" statement doesn't mention anything about Apple.
Python itself, and the standard library, are not copyrighted by Apple.
However, that doesn't mean that you can re-distribute an Apple-built
binary. Aside from that, Apple has added a couple modules that they do
hold the copyright on. I suspect that when py2app was designed, it was
decided to simply avoid any possible licensing issues.
There are plenty of other reasons to use the python.org build anyway.
-Chris
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