[spambayes-dev] Re: [Spambayes] RV: I18N and L10N

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 17:03, Mark Hammond wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 16:33, Kenny Pitt wrote:
> >
> > > > No one here seems to have mentioned the GNU gettext
> > project. Why not
> > > > try to integrate SB with gettext instead?
> > >
> > > IIRC, the GNU license is not compatible with the
> > SpamBayes/PSF license.
> >
> > The GPL and the PSF license are compatible.
> 
> Here we go again :)  Wouldn't it mean that we must release SB under the GPL?
> That is what my understanding of Python being "compatible" means - Python
> can be released in a GPL'd project, but not the other way around - using GNU
> with Python doesn't allow us to re-licence the GNU stuff.

I haven't been following this thread, but in this specific example, I
doubt it's necessary even to worry about it <wink>.  Python has its own
gettext implementation that doesn't share any code with GNU gettext.  In
fact, Python's class-based API works better for Python code than classic
gettext API.

ducking-ly y'rs,
-Barry