[Python-Dev] DRAFT: python-dev Summary for 2006-01-01 through 2006-01-15 (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Jan 28 00:53:39 CET 2006

Ronald Oussoren wrote:

Merging the two configure files might be a good idea anyway, that would take away the need to run configure from setup.py. IANAL, but I don't quite get how a GPL'd support script, if there is such a thing, in the build machinery of an extension library would require that Python itself is GPL'd.

Section 2b) of the GPL. If a part of the program is GPL, the entire program must be. Also, you must include the entire source of the program, including all build scripts (section 3). So just including the generated configure, and omitting some of its input, would also be a license violation.

Regards, Martin

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