Re: Python license and GPL programs
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 08:33:19PM +0100, calvin@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I followed the discussion of the Python 2.0 packaging. In the python2-base
> package I saw this text:
>
> Note that the license of Python 2 is not compatible with the GNU General
> Public License (cf. clause 6 of the new Python license). Please don't
> use GPL code with Python2 without asking the authors of the GPL code for
> their explicit permission.
>
> I am distributing Python programs under the GPL. So is this sentence
> above telling me that all users are not allowed to use my GPLed programs
> with Python 2.0?? What about previous versions?
<IANAL>
You can add an exception to your copyright file (GPL) that say that you
give permittion to use your program with any python parser (or
something, ask debian-legal for the exact text of such a disclaimer)
</IANAL>
>
> What is a possible solution? Use LGPL? Or restrict usage to Python <<2.0?
>
>
> Bastian Kleineidam
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