Calling GPL code from a Python application

Ernst Noch enoch at gmx.net
Wed Jan 4 14:40:33 EST 2006


Mike Meyer wrote:

> In my case, I get paid for building custom applications. If I use
> GPL'ed software, I'm required to give my client the software under the
> GPL (or, as you point out, a GPL-compatible license). I never bother -
> I hand them a tarball and installation instructions and they install
> it on their systems, or I install the stuff on their systems for them,
> and it never goes anywhere else. I believe that's in compliance with
> the GPL, because they get all the rights that the GPL wants them to
> have. 

  [snip]

Yeah, and you are in absolute compliance with what the FSF intends the 
GPL to be:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html



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