Urgent Question about Python licensing

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <98cpfe$5oj$0 at 216.39.170.247>, whisper at oz.net (Dave
LeBlanc) writes:

| Hi;
| While reading up on the recent Python conference on O'Reilly's site
| (http://python.oreilly.com/news/pythonday1_0301.html - actually on the
| 'day 2' page), I cam across the following:
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[...]
| This difficulty means that Python
| can't be distributed with software licensed under the GPL.

that is false. the issue is not distributiong python with gpl software,
it is mixing the python interpreter code with gpl'd code. (ie where
the other code and the python interpreter would combine to produce
what the gpl refers to as a "derivate work").

  -- erno