[Python-Dev] Include ctypes into core Python? (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller theller at python.net
Thu Jan 26 16:43:58 CET 2006


James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> writes:

On Jan 19, 2006, at 4:24 PM, Thomas Heller wrote:

Several of these files are licensed under GPL: aclocal.m4 config-ml.in config.guess config.sub depcomp ltcf-c.sh ltconfig missing Are you sure? The copies of aclocal.m4 and config-ml.in both disagree with you. aclocal seems to have a completely liberal license, and config-ml has a "whatever the license of the program it's building" license.

It seems you are right:

config-ml.in: GPL with special exception. config.guess: GPL with special exception. config.sub: GPL with special exception. configure: no limitation depcomp: GPL with special exception. install-sh: X-11 license ltcf-c.sh: GPL with special exception. ltconfig: GPL with special exception. ltmain.sh: GPL with special exception.

aclocal.m4: see below

Is aclocal.m4 an exception? It has several copyright notices. The first one gives unlimited permissions to copy and/or distribute, but sections after that have no exception clause. I'm unsure what this means.

The files that ctypes uses are in CVS here:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ctypes/ctypes/source/gcc/libffi/?only_with_tag=branch_1_0

Thomas



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