AppImage distributions of Python
GPL-3.0 License
Ready to use AppImages of Python are available as GitHub releases.
We provide relocatable Python runtimes as AppImages for Linux systems. These runtimes are extracted from Manylinux Docker images, and they are available as GitHub releases. Our Python AppImages are updated weekly, on every Sunday.
Instructions for installing and running Python AppImages are provided on Read the Docs.
In addition, the online documentation describes the python-appimage
utility, for application developers. This utility can facilitate the building of
Python apps, given an existing Python AppImage and a recipe folder.
Examples of recipes are available from GitHub.
python-appimage
The python-appimage
package (A) is under the GNU GPLv3 license,
except for files located under python_appimage/data
which are MIT licensed.
Thus, the produced Manylinux Python AppImages (B) are not GPL'd. They
contain a CPython distribution that is (mostly) under the PSF
license. Other parts of B (e.g. AppRun
) are under the MIT
license.