Joao S. O. Bueno writes: > 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:
Note that your interpretation would allow Python to distribute arbitrarily licensed libraries and GPL programs to link with them. That is surely not the intent of the authors of the GPL, and in the past, the FSF has explicitly restricted the interpretation of "system library". Specifically, in > "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. the word "essential" would refer to running the compiler or the operating system or interpreter, not to a component essential to running the program but in general optional for using the system. Perhaps this has changed with the advent of GPL v3, but the FSF used this interpretation to block the consideration of (old-Qt-licensed) Qt as a system library on GNU/Linux systems, even where distributed by vendors such as Red Hat. OTOH, for some reason Motif on Sun and HP systems, and Windows and Mac GUIs were considered essential. _______________________________________________ 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
