Re: ANN: Alien 0.3

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Bradley Smith <gmane@baysmith.com> writes:
> It should be noted that use of alien requires acceptance of the GPL
> license. Although alien lists its license as the MIT license, the ffcall
> library is GPL licensed, which means alien is too.

The GPL does _not_ require "acceptance" for mere use.  It is not a
contract.  To _redistribute_ code using the GPL, of course, one must
abide by the terms of the GPL (which are what grants one the right to
redistribute).

-Miles

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