On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:20 PM, James Y Knight <f...@fuhm.net> wrote: > It's well known that OpenSSL is incompatible with the GPL. [1] Python (from > 2.6) is *always* linked against openssl, instead of waiting for you to > "import ssl". > > Doesn't this mean it's now impossible (rather, a license violation) to > distribute a GPL'd python program (or to use a GPL'd library in your python > program)? This seems like a problem...
Hi - Any libraries commonly avaliable with a CPython instalation can be considered as "system libraries" for GPL purposes - and so this would fall in the "system library exception" as described by the FAQ: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs In GPLv2 we have """ However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable. """ And in v3: """ The “System Libraries” of an executable work include anything, other than the work as a whole, that (a) is included in the normal form of packaging a Major Component, but which is not part of that Major Component, and (b) serves only to enable use of the work with that Major Component, or to implement a Standard Interface for which an implementation is available to the public in source code form. A “Major Component”, in this context, means a major essential component (kernel, window system, and so on) of the specific operating system (if any) on which the executable work runs, or a compiler used to produce the work, or an object code interpreter used to run it. """ regards, js -><- > > Thanks to Ulrik Sverdrup > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2011/03/msg00082.html) for pointing > this out... > > James > > [1] http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/jsbueno%40python.org.br > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
