Hi colleagues, finally I got this answer from gnu.org which I didn't expect. I'm not sure that I understand what he's saying, I thought it is a problem. What should I reply?
cheers - chris Begin forwarded message: > From: "Yoni Rabkin via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 22. Mai 2007 10:55:00 MESZ > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [gnu.org #335118] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hello, > > Please accept our apologies for the delay in getting back to you. We > rely on volunteer effort and often have difficulties keeping up. > >> My question is if there is any chance to distribute binaries which >> use >> readline, without having to change PyPy's license? > > Here is the situation as I see it: The parts of PyPy have 4 different > licenses: The Pyrex license, the Python license, the Expat license and > the Unicode license. The parts which interact with GNU Readline > seem to > be under GPL compatible licenses. So there should not be any problem > with linking to the GNU Readline library and distributing under the > GNU > GPL. > > Is that a problem? > > -- > I am not a lawyer, the above is not legal advice > > Regards, Yoni Rabkin > > > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
