On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 08:33:19PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I followed the discussion of the Python 2.0 packaging. In the python2-base > package I saw this text: > > Note that the license of Python 2 is not compatible with the GNU General > Public License (cf. clause 6 of the new Python license). Please don't > use GPL code with Python2 without asking the authors of the GPL code for > their explicit permission. > > I am distributing Python programs under the GPL. So is this sentence > above telling me that all users are not allowed to use my GPLed programs > with Python 2.0?? What about previous versions? <IANAL> You can add an exception to your copyright file (GPL) that say that you give permittion to use your program with any python parser (or something, ask debian-legal for the exact text of such a disclaimer) </IANAL> > > What is a possible solution? Use LGPL? Or restrict usage to Python <<2.0? > > > Bastian Kleineidam
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