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/