On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 08:33:19PM +0100, calvin@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > 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? > > What is a possible solution? Use LGPL? Or restrict usage to Python <<2.0? IANAL, but I don't think the Python2 license has any effect on the license used by Python code. The license conflict only affects compiled extension modules which are licensed under the GPL. Code written in Python can be licensed however you wish. -Ben -- Ben Darnell ben@thoughtstream.org http://thoughtstream.org Finger bgdarnel@debian.org for PGP/GPG key 1024D/1F06E509
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