On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 01:37, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Benjamin> The main objection is that GMP is licensed under LGPL which I > Benjamin> believe conflicts with Python's very open license. > > >> If GMP itself isn't included with Python how can there be a licensing > >> issue? > > Martin> On Windows, the GMP binaries would be incorporated into > Martin> pythonxy.dll. This would force anybody providing a copy of > Martin> pythonxy.dll to also provide the sources of GMP. > > As I understand it the proposal was to allow people to substitute GMP for > Python's long implementation. Just deliver binaries with the Python long > version if you don't want to distribute the GMP source. OTOH, it should be > no big deal to drop a zip archive of the GMP sources which correspond to > the > code bound into the DLL. OTOOH, doesn't Windows support dynamic linking? > Can't pythonxy.dll dynamically link to a gmpMN.dll? >
Neither of those (shipping sources or dynamically linking to GMP) would solve the LGPL issue. People who distribute that build of Python would still be held by the LGPL -- such as shipping any sources that they embed that Python into. -- Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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