[Python-Dev] DRAFT: python-dev Summary for 2006-01-01 through 2006-01-15

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> Merging the two configure files might be a good idea anyway, that  would
> take away the need to run configure from setup.py. IANAL, but I  don't
> quite get how a GPL'd support script, if there is such a thing,  in the
> build machinery of an extension library would require that  Python
> itself is GPL'd.

Section 2b) of the GPL. If a part of the program is GPL, the entire
program must be. Also, you must include the entire source of the
program, including all build scripts (section 3). So just including the
generated configure, and omitting some of its input, would also be a
license violation.

Regards,
Martin