On 2/11/12 11:47 AM, Keshav Kini wrote:
IANAL but I find it hard to believe that simply having non-GPL-compatible software as a dependency disqualifies us from releasing Sage under the GPL. If that were true, surely it would be impossible to license Windows programs under the GPL, as in order to run them you must first install Microsoft Windows. No?
IIRC, the question is not so much distributing our source that just has an import statement, but distributing binaries that we've compiled.
And remember, GPL has an exception that says you can link against system libraries (see the page I posted earlier, or http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html). Win32 certainly is a system library. Different people believe different things about OpenSSL being a system library. IIRC, FSF doesn't think it is.
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