Re: Cython development
Stefan Behnel <[email protected]>
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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