[Python-3000] C API for ints and strings (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sun Sep 9 07:19:54 CEST 2007

On 9/8/07, Nicholas Bastin <nick.bastin at gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/8/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote: > > Would anyone be opposed to rehosting PyLong on top of GMP? > > I would be opposed. It's LGPL'ed, so you would have to ship GMP sources > with any Python binary that you distribute.

The LGPL has no requirement that you convey source for unmodified libraries. Linkage does not imply modification.

Nevertheless I think it would be a bad idea to make it the default long implementation. There are bound to be some licensing issues with the LGPL (even if it's just more FUD we'd have to fight) and it'd be one more dependency. I believe there are already Python bindings for GMP somewhere, so it's not like there is no way to use if if you absolutely have to.

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