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Re: svn commit: r24647 - in branches/ctypes-python-bindings: . csvn/core wraptypes

From: Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-svn-dev_at_farside.org.uk>
Date: 2007-04-25 10:05:36 CEST

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 05:52:40AM -0700, David James wrote:
> > When you say "entirely separate", I'm confused - is the code it
> > generates not used _by_ the ctypes Python bindings?
> >
> > Does the generator have an explicit LGPL exemption in its license for
> > the code it generates, like the Bison license does?
>
> No, wraptypes does not have a special exception for generated code. I
> don't think this is necessary, however, given that the LGPL license is
> quite permissive.
>

It occurred to me that the problems with Bison were that it was GPL, not
LGPL, and that it copied portions of itself into the output. As long as
wraptypes doesn't do that, I don't have a problem with it - I really
wouldn't want to release Python bindings that were effectively under an
LGPL license, though. (Though presumably we could build releases using
ctypeslib if that was thought to be a concern).

Regards,
Malcolm

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