Python 2.0b1 is released!

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 04:55:35PM +1100, Evan Gibson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:32:08AM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
> > [posted & mailed]
> > 
> > [Bernhard Reiter]
> > > Please make sure that this is resolved soon and python will be GPL
> > > compatible. Otherwise python will loose a lot of attraction for the
> > > free software community.
> 
> Which is a shame really.

I am concerned with the freedom of software.
The GPL is the most successful and establised way to ensure this.
It fights all subtle attempts to restrict the freedom of software.
Therefore it is the best solution. 

GPL unfriendlich free software licenses 
usually favours a third group in an unbalanced way.

It is your choise of course, I respect your decision.
But respect mine, too. Note that the FSF even fights for your freedom.

And the world of law is very important in the big picture.
We cannot put our head in the sand. (A saying in Germany.)

	Bernhard


> 
> It's a pity that the intelligent open-minded people in the free software
> community have been bitten by lawyers so often that they've become the 
> very close-minded anal people they started out fighting.
> 
> The strict requirement some people have that everything be GPL compatible 
> and open is just a different type of restriction.
> 
> I feel sorry for them really. It's much more pitiful when someone locks
> _themselves_ in a cage and throws away the key.
> 
>  
> > There is something *you* can do, though:  tell CNRI how important Python's
> > GPL-compatibility is to you, and also tell the FSF!  They're the ones who
> > have to reach agreement here.  Given CNRI's and the FSF's positions today,
> > there is nothing BeOpen.com can do on its own to make Python 2.0
> > GPL-compatible according to the FSF's current view.  The only parties with
> > the power to change that are CNRI and the FSF, so the best thing you can do
> > to help is to tell them that you personally need to see them resolve this.
> > If they don't, all Python users will suffer (even the ones who don't like
> > the GPL -- they owe a debt to their GPL brethren whether they acknowledge it
> > or not).
> 
> I acknowledge it. I just think they need to grow up and learn to act like
> adults again.
> 
> 
> > i'd-rather-be-programming-myself-ly y'rs  - tim
> 
> Amen to that.
> Leave the lawyerin' to the lawyers... No point the rest of us losing our
> souls as well.
> 
> -- 
>       Evan ~ThunderFoot~ Gibson    ~ nihil mutatem, omni deletum ~
> All of us are God's creatures... just some are more creature than others.

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