Pyinstaller license issue

[srinivas mortha]

Hello,

I built a binary(python script + python) from pyInstaller.

 While referring the license page, it states the non-free python binary built from pyInstaller can be distributed for commercial use but the copyright doesn't have any ClassPath exception under GPLv2. 

https://www.pyinstaller.org/license.html

PyInstaller is distributed under the GPL license (see the file COPYING.txt in the source code), with a special exception which allows to use PyInstaller to build and distribute non-free programs (including commercial ones).

Could you clarify if the license still allow the commercial binaries built through pyInstaller to be distributed under GPLv2?

Thanks

Mortha

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hi,

https://www.pyinstaller.org/license.html

PyInstaller is distributed under the GPL license (see the file COPYING.txt in the source code), with a special exception which allows to use PyInstaller to build and distribute non-free programs (including commercial ones).

Could you clarify if the license still allow the commercial binaries built through pyInstaller to be distributed under GPLv2?

I'm not sure if I understood your question.

So you program's source is licensed under the GPLv2? You cant to build/freeze it using PyInstaller - which is GPLv2 licensed, too?

Did reading COPYING.txt , which contains the "official" license, not solve youe question? Then we might need to extend the explansion there.

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[srinivas mortha]

Hi,

My program source(python script) is not licensed under GPLv2. It's non-free and want to build/freeze it using pyInstaller.

From COPYING.txt(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/develop/COPYING.txt), there is no exception which states the commercial source can be build/freeze with pyInstaller.

From the license website(https://www.pyinstaller.org/license.html), it clearly stated - with a special exception which allows to use PyInstaller to build and distribute non-free programs (including commercial ones).

This special exception is missing from COPYING.txt which has the GPL license terms. Could you add this special exception in COPYING.txt which solves the licensing issues.

Thanks

Mortha

[Hartmut Goebel]

Am 28.02.20 um 04:28 schrieb srinivas mortha:

This special exception is missing from COPYING.txt which has the GPL license terms. Could you add this special exception in COPYING.txt which solves the licensing issues.

This is already in there:

Bootloader Exception
--------------------

In addition to the permissions in the GNU General Public License, the
authors give you unlimited permission to link or embed compiled bootloader
and related files into combinations with other programs, and to distribute
those combinations without any restriction coming from the use of those
files. (The General Public License restrictions do apply in other respects;
for example, they cover modification of the files, and distribution when
not linked into a combined executable.)

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Hartmut Goebel
Dipl.-Informatiker (univ), CISSP, CSSLP, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Information Security Management, Security Governance, Secure Software Development

Goebel Consult, Landshut
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