[I18n-sig] Codec licenses

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> scanning through the CVS archive of the SourceForge python-codecs
> project I found that most codec packages were placed under the GPL
> for some reason. This makes the codecs unusable for software which
> isn't GPL compatible and limits its usefulness considerably.
> 
> Please consider either moving to the LGPL which does not have the
> GPL problems (other software relying on it will need to be shipped
> under the GPL too), but still assures that your code remains freely
> available or one of the Python licenses (preferrably the
> old CWI one).

I haven't received any comment on the above so far. 

Should I take this as rejection of the proposal ? This would be sad
and probably cause rewrites for most of the codecs in order to make 
them useful in closed-source software projects too.

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
______________________________________________________________________
Company:                                        http://www.egenix.com/
Consulting:                                    http://www.lemburg.com/
Python Pages:                           http://www.lemburg.com/python/