"Martin v. Löwis" writes:
> Note that it is ultimately up to a court to interpret these words of the
> GPL, not to the FSF lawyer.
True, and in the case of a non-FSF product, any ambiguities would be
resolved first by determining the intent of the copyright owner,
second (perhaps even overridin
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Joao S. O. Bueno writes:
>
> > Any libraries commonly avaliable with a CPython instalation can be
> > considered as "system libraries" for GPL purposes - and so
> > this would fall in the "system library exception" as described by th
Note that your interpretation would allow Python to distribute
arbitrarily licensed libraries and GPL programs to link with them.
That is surely not the intent of the authors of the GPL, and in the
past, the FSF has explicitly restricted the interpretation of "system
library".
Note that it is ul
James Y Knight, 10.03.2011 06:52:
But you're also left with not being able to 'import hashlib'. While python has
fallback code, those modules (_md5, _sha, _sha256, _sha512) aren't built if
openssl was found at build time. So you can't just select at runtime that you
didn't want to use openssl.
Westley Martínez writes:
> Is it legal to distribute GPL programs that use the Win32 API?
Yes. Their use of the Win32 API falls under the "essential system
library" clause. The criterion for "essential" is that normal, basic
use of the system would fail without the library. Windows won't boot
On Mar 9, 2011, at 6:45 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> It seems introduced by the patch debian/patches/setup-modules-ssl.diff
> with description "# DP: Modules/Setup.dist: patch to build _hashlib
> and _ssl extensions statically"
Indeed you're right -- out of the box, python still builds _ssl.so as a
s
Joao S. O. Bueno writes:
> Any libraries commonly avaliable with a CPython instalation can be
> considered as "system libraries" for GPL purposes - and so
> this would fall in the "system library exception" as described by the FAQ:
Note that your interpretation would allow Python to distribute
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Westley Martínez wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 18:20 -0500, James Y Knight wrote:
>> It's well known that OpenSSL is incompatible with the GPL. [1] Python (from
>> 2.6) is *always* linked against openssl, instead of waiting for you to
>> "import ssl".
>>
>> Doe
Am 09.03.11 18:20, schrieb James Y Knight:
[1] Python (from 2.6) is *always* linked against openssl
Others have already pointed that out, but let me stress it again:
this statement is false. It is as possible and easy to build Python
without OpenSSL as it always was.
> instead of waiting for y
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 18:20 -0500, James Y Knight wrote:
> It's well known that OpenSSL is incompatible with the GPL. [1] Python (from
> 2.6) is *always* linked against openssl, instead of waiting for you to
> "import ssl".
>
> Doesn't this mean it's now impossible (rather, a license violation)
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:20 PM, James Y Knight wrote:
> It's well known that OpenSSL is incompatible with the GPL. [1] Python (from
> 2.6) is *always* linked against openssl, instead of waiting for you to
> "import ssl".
>
> Doesn't this mean it's now impossible (rather, a license violation) to
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 00:32, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Also, with the system Python 2.6 shipped on a Mandriva distribution:
>
> $ ldd /usr/bin/python
> linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x7fff8456d000)
> libpython2.6.so.1.0 => /usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0
> (0x7f1a0b1e2000) libc.so.6 =>
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 18:20:01 -0500
James Y Knight wrote:
> It's well known that OpenSSL is incompatible with the GPL. [1] Python (from
> 2.6) is *always* linked against openssl, instead of waiting for you to
> "import ssl".
>
> Doesn't this mean it's now impossible (rather, a license violation)
It's well known that OpenSSL is incompatible with the GPL. [1] Python (from
2.6) is *always* linked against openssl, instead of waiting for you to "import
ssl".
Doesn't this mean it's now impossible (rather, a license violation) to
distribute a GPL'd python program (or to use a GPL'd library in
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