Please change the license from GPL to LGPL.

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It's GPL. And when you compile python code with shedskin, it links against
shedskin's minimal python lib implementation. Which means whatever you
compile with shedskin must become GPL. 

This will be problematic for anyone that wants to use this application in a
commercial environment or code that is already licensed under a license
that is not GPL compatible. 

If the code is LPGL changes to shedskin must still get open sourced(LGPL
compatible license) but the code that gets linked to the shedskin
supporting python library can be any license.

Ps: Also have a look at
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9rtsb/shedskin_an_experimental_pyth
on_to_c_compiler/

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ludolph%...@gtempaccount.com on 8 Oct 2009 at 6:51

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thanks for the suggestion and the link!

the C++ files in lib/ are under a BSD-style license already (see the end of the
LICENSE file), so there should be no linkage problems.. 

I would personally also prefer to switch to LGPL at a later point in time.

Original comment by mark.duf...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2009 at 2:46

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Original comment by mark.duf...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2010 at 8:01

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afraid I'm too lazy to contact all the contributors to move to LGPL. LGPL would 
have my preference as well, but I think revisiting this is a bit of a waste of 
time atm.. in any case, I'm guessing your problem is solved, so I can close 
this issue.

Original comment by mark.duf...@gmail.com on 27 Oct 2010 at 1:41

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