Hah, I guess we all know what happens when one assumes :) Mono has some GPL bits I believe, so double check the exact licence, but it should otherwise be OK. Also, what Jimmy said - if it's isolated in it's own assembly there shouldn't be any issues.
- Jeff On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Slide <slide.o....@gmail.com> wrote: > No, I was actually thinking of pulling something in from Mono which has > nothing to do with zlib or zipimport :-) I am planning on reusing the > existing decompression that is currently used in the zlib module for > zipimport (which is coming along nicely by the way). > Thanks, > slide > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Jeff Hardy <jdha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Unfortunately, I'm not entirely sure. We do include the Python & Ruby >> stdlibs, which have their own licenses, and zlib.net, which is >> MIT/BSD. I'm going to hazard a guess that you're thinking of #ZipLib, >> which is GPL + Classpath, which isn't as scary as it sounds, but still >> makes me slightly nervous. I'd prefer to avoid it if possible. At the >> very least, it might be an external, optional dependency. >> >> On that note, I did happen across >> >> https://github.com/IronLanguages/main/blob/master/Hosts/Silverlight/Chiron/Zip.cs >> that you might find interesting. >> >> - Jeff >> >> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Slide <slide.o....@gmail.com> wrote: >> > What are the guidelines for bringing in part or all of an external >> > library? >> > What licenses are compatible with the rest of the IP source code so it >> > won't >> > be tainted by anything? >> > Thanks, >> > slide >> > >> > -- >> > slide-o-blog >> > http://slide-o-blog.blogspot.com/ >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Ironpython-users mailing list >> > Ironpython-users@python.org >> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ironpython-users >> > >> > > > > > -- > slide-o-blog > http://slide-o-blog.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ Ironpython-users mailing list Ironpython-users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ironpython-users
