Copyright Notice in Commercial Software

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <8h6rbt$ksv$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <t_e_sanders at my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>> Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
>> documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
>> provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and
>> that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
>> supporting documentation...
>
>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, (one of the downsides of being a
>developer, rather than a lawyer? :) Can anyone shed some light on this?

IANAL, but I know something about this subject (whether what I know is
correct is another issue ;-):

What this license means is that your customers need to be free to
distribute Python, but not your Python scripts.  As an example, use of
gcc does not force you to allow your users access to your source code.
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