* Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020507 16:47]: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 03:24:37PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 13:33, Walter Landry wrote: > > > If it doesn't, then the OpenSSL code, by itself, does not touch any > > > GPL'd code. The interpreter, which includes GPL code, does not touch > > > any OpenSSL code. We have one program that calls another program > > > through well-documented interfaces. I don't think that there is any > > > problem with distributing them as two separate entities. > > > > There might be a problem if you distribute them together. To allay > > > any concerns, I would recommend splitting python into 2 packages. > > > Yuck. Now I regret picking on Python. I hadn't expected it would be this > > difficult to fix... > > Hmm -- PHP once had a readline extension, that was dropped completely > due to the licensing conflicts. Licensing is most complex and least > intuitive when dealing with interpreted languages... :)
The license of PHP4 itself is incompatible with the GPL, although free (according to the FSF), so they had a better reason to drop the readline module ;-). Gregor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]