On Friday, 6 April 2012 at 13:00:34 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
wrote:
Yes, but -- if I understand correctly -- the Waf binary is
provided as an integral part of the source distribution. It's
not just another program that sits elsewhere on your computer
and can be installed independently.
In fact, the zipped-up wscript is contained within the build
script as a binary blob, no? This alone is enough to make it
fall under the GPL provisions.
GPL doesn't prohibit distribution in binary form, it's about
rights, not form. For example, Linux is distributed in binary
form and that's not a problem. Though, it's a perfectly
meaningful demand to have waf sources in repository. A
source-only package should not cause any harm, should it?
