On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Kirill Smelkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And also I say again that almost every program actually *uses* LGPL'ed > libraries: for example glibc:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldd /usr/bin/python > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f32000) > libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7efb000) > libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7ef7000) > libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb7ef2000) > libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7ecc000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7d71000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f33000) > While Python itself stays BSD. > That's why I personally think that the LGPL is a well established and > tested ground. The python project is very careful to stick to the C89 standard. Not even C99, let alone GNU extensions. The specific binary on your machine happens to meet that pre-condition with glibc, but it doesn't have to. The python on my windows box does not use glibc. (There has been occasional discussion of the readline library, because the gnu readline is different enough that you could argue the module was only meaningful with the gnu version. And the module is often disabled, for that reason.) -jJ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
