[Python-Dev] Re: [Patches] [ python-Patches-428326 ] Timer class for threading

[Jack Jansen]

> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:16:31AM -0700, noreply@sourceforge.net wrote:
> 
> > OK, I'm un-withdrawing this patch.  Just had to get things
> > straight with our lawyer. The patch is released under the
> > following license (the X11 license with 4 extra paragraphs
> > of disclaimers :):
> > http://www.zoteca.com/opensource/LICENSE.txt
>
> [...]
>
> The easiest solution would of course be for Itamar to get his boss/lawyers
> to give us the right to relicence it under the PSF licence :)

I think this is the only viable solution. If various parts of Python have 
different license agreements this may well be a reason for people not to use 
Python because the hassle of figuring out which pieces fit their own licensing 
policy.
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