Re: Cython development

Stefan Behnel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.pyrex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Arc Riley wrote:
>> We've received at least a dozen complaints ... 
>  > that we haven't actually complied with
>> the GPL's requirements in the "source" release since the .c sources are 
>> not what is intended to be modified
> 
> For GPL compliance, you just need to release the .pyx files as
> well -- perhaps in a separate download, if you want to keep
> the size down for people only wanting to install.

At least for Cython, the C code size really dominates the Cython code size by
quite a bit. And since tar balls are usually well compressed, I don't really
see much use in separating the two. But shipping with the .c files has
definitely helped our users, so there's no way around that.

Stefan
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