Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > > If somebody could give me a legal advice that the Python license is in fact > compatible with the GPL, and if this was accepted by the guys at > debian-legal@lists.debian.org, I would happily adopt this opinion and that > would make (b) go away as well. > > Until this happens, I think the best way for Debian to handle this situation > (clearly not perfect!) is to use a per-case judgement--if there's GPL code > in a package, ask the author if it's okay to use it with Python2 code. If he > says alright, go on with packaging.
Say, what kind of clause is needed in licenses to make them explicitly GPL-compatible without harming the license conditions in all other cases where the GPL is not involved ? > If he says nogo (as the FSF did for > readline), do away with the package (therefore python2-base doesn't include > readline support). Oh boy... about time we switch to editline as the default line editing package. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Consulting: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
