Copyright changes with move from CNRI to BeOpen?

[Harry Tanovich]

Will the copyright move to a more GPL style thing now?

Andrew Dalke wrote:

> t_e_sanders at my-deja.com wrote:
> >Do the terms of Python's distribution license require me to allow other
> >users to copy and distribute my software? I would guess not, but
> >inclusion of this notice in my package explicitly states so. There's
> >obviously something I'm missing,
>
> The key word is "use".
>
> The copyright only applies to the Python code.  You are free to add
> your own code to Python, which is under your own copyright.  The
> clause you quoted allows you to use the Python code with your own
> code, regardless of the license applied to your own code.
>
> The GPL, which you are probably thinking of, does not allow similarly
> unfettered use of their code.  Packages compiled with GPL code
> restrict their use to only GPL-compatible licenses.
>
> The inclusion of the statement in code you distribute only applies to
> Python code.  Someone could copy that portion of the source from your
> program and use it elsewhere.  However, since it's already available
> from python.org, there nothing new revealed.
>
> But remember, I-am-not-a-lawyer.
>
>                     Andrew
>                     dalke at acm.org