[IPython-dev] iPython binary wheels for OS-X

Chris Barker chris.barker at noaa.gov
Fri Jan 17 17:37:54 EST 2014


On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Aaron Meurer <asmeurer at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I asked at https://github.com/stefanholek/rl/issues/9 so we can find
> > out for sure.
>
> According to the author, the code is GPL or PSF, your choice.


IANAL, and all that, but The whole point of the GPL is that anything linked
against a GPL lib has to be GPL. So while the pyreadline code itself may be
PSF (so you could re-use it for something else, like writing a wrapper for
some readline-like lib), once you link against readline, it's GPL.

So for practical purposes pyreadline is GPL.

-Chris

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