If you include MSVCR71.DLL in your binary Python module, you would need to provide source code to MSVCR71.DLL as well.
If that's true, then it's illegal to distribute *any* GPL software compiled with VC7 -- or with any other language implementation that links in a non-open-source runtime library -- and has been for a long time. I find it hard to believe that's the intent of the GPL. There must be a lot of software out there that does this -- is it all breaking the law? Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+