NO. Your application only becomes GPL if you INCLUDE(ie: distribute) the DAL with your program, not if it only "USES" the DAL, and the client has to install web2py themselves.
-Thadeus On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Timothy Farrell <[email protected]> wrote: > Also remember that web2py is GPL. So your application becomes GPL (if it > wasn't already) by importing the DAL. > > -tim > > On 3/5/2010 1:34 PM, compassiontara wrote: >> >> On Mar 5, 6:17 am, mdipierro<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Mar 5, 1:33 am, compassiontara<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> I'll probably get flamed for talking about this... >>>> >>> >>> Hope not. You have a very good example. >>> Just as a side, you do not necessarily need to copy web2py for the >>> script to work, just add 'gluon' to sys.path. >>> >> >> Thanks! this is correct, you can just add gluon to your sys.path, but >> web2py doesn't by default install itself in the system path(s). So >> unless I'm missing something you can't use setuptools to require >> web2py, and leech from there (it would be nice if you could), but that >> would require changing how gluon import's itself to reference itself >> instead of assuming everything is local. >> i.e. instead of: >> import poralocker >> it would be: >> from gluon import portalocker >> >> This does require that gluon be part of sys.path, which would then >> encourage a 'setup.py' or similar to copy it over. Then it would be >> much easier for external code to use gluon as a library module, and >> avoid mucking about with sys.path all the time. >> >> Unless I'm missing something, which is very possible. >> >> With Love, >> Tara >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
