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(offtopic) RE: [Python-Dev] Python 2.0 license and GPL

Greg Ewing [email protected]
Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:19:09 +1300 (NZDT)

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"M.-A. Lemburg" <[email protected]>:
> if an application Q needs a GPLed 
> library P to work, then P and Q form a new whole in the sense of
> the GPL.

I don't see how Q can *need* any particular library P
to work. The most it can need is some library with
an API which is compatible with P's. So I don't
buy that argument.

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