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

Nicholas Bastin nick.bastin at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 03:02:31 CEST 2007

On 9/10/07, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

Greg Ewing wrote: If there's a link on the same web page that works when the user clicks on it, I don't think they're even going to notice the difference. They'll notice the difference when they want to redistribute Python, when they note the new licensing-based restrictions ("GMP must be in a user-replaceable shared library", "you must distribute the source to your GMP build").

If python.org agreed to host the GMP source, that would suffice for all people distributing python binaries (they could then just refer to the GMP source download as a link). The FSF explicitly states that this kind of agreement satisfies that requirement of the license.

As for the user-replaceable shared library part, that's up for considerable debate. It's unlikely that static linkage legally creates a derivative work (that would be pretty unreasonable in computer science terms), but it's never been tested in court, so static linking would probably be out for distributors without a legal department.

-- Nick

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