Hi colleagues, finally I got this answer from gnu.org which I didn't expect. I'm not sure that I understand what he's saying, I thought it is a problem. What should I reply? cheers - chris Begin forwarded message:

From: "Yoni Rabkin via RT" <licensing@fsf.org> Date: 22. Mai 2007 10:55:00 MESZ To: tismer@stackless.com Subject: [gnu.org #335118] Reply-To: licensing@fsf.org

Hello,

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My question is if there is any chance to distribute binaries which use readline, without having to change PyPy's license?

Here is the situation as I see it: The parts of PyPy have 4 different licenses: The Pyrex license, the Python license, the Expat license and the Unicode license. The parts which interact with GNU Readline seem to be under GPL compatible licenses. So there should not be any problem with linking to the GNU Readline library and distributing under the GNU GPL.

Is that a problem?

-- I am not a lawyer, the above is not legal advice

Regards, Yoni Rabkin