On 03/13/2013 12:36 PM, Ken Dreyer wrote:
Since the MySQL-python package is licensed GPLv2+, does that mean
that
any projects which happen to import "mysql-python" must be released
under the GPL?
No. GPL doesn't work like that. If you copied and pasted code from the
MySQL-python code into another project, that copied code would still be
GPLv2+, and it is possible that if the rest of the code was GPLv2+
incompatible, the resulting code combination would be a licensing mess
that no one could use.
Now, an argument could be made that any projects which happen to "import
mysql" would need to be GPLv2+ compatible, but Fedora doesn't take that
stance.
See:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:FAQ?rd=Licensing/FAQ#What_about_...
hth,
~tom
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