Meld's Bazaar support

[Aaron Bentley]

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Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 16:42 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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>> James Troup wrote:
>>> John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:
>>>> That isn't legal.
>>>
>>> Err, you're mistaken.  Mixing BSD-without-advertising and GPL code is
>>> absolutely fine.
>>>
>>> Linking a BSD-without-advertising program with a GPL library (or
>>> importing a GPL module or whatever) simply creates a derived work
>>> whose resulting license is GPL _and_ BSD-without-advertising.
>> The problem is that Stephen wants to distribute the resulting work under
>> the BSD license.  It would not be legal for him to do that.
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> He wants to ship the .pyc files ?
> 
> Rob-who-finds-that-hard-to-believe.

No.  I don't see how that enters into it.  If the code is GPL, you can't
change the license to BSD.  And if the code were BSD, it would be fine
to distribute the .pyc files.  Or are you saying that .pyc files are
derived works while .py files are not?

Aaron
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