Python is better than free (was Re: GNU wars again)

[Cliff Wells]

On Tuesday 02 October 2001 13:01, Samuel Schulenburg wrote:

> Sometimes you have code that you want to release with a commercial
> product, that contains propriatary information about the internals in
> your product. A GPL license would keep you from releasing this code
> using Python.

Actually, unless you were embedding Python in your app I don't think this is 
true, since _your_ source would not in fact contain any GPL'd code.  
Additionally, I expect the Python libraries would fall under LGPL so using 
them would not "infect" your code.

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