Python 2.0b1 is released!

[Charles Hixson]

Does claiming that the license is GPL compatible now give any
protection for the future?  In a UCITA state?

Emile van Sebille wrote:

> Good point.  Who's likely to take issue?  CNRI claims
> to believe the license is GPL compatible.  That leaves
> the GPL licensed code author.  For what purpose would
> it be pursued?  Could commercial python code presumably
> be forced open sourced by such an action?  Is that what's
> at stake?
>
> Wishing-lawyers-had-to-write-laws-in-python-ly y'rs
>
> --
>
> Emile van Sebille
> emile at fenx.com
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>
> "Grant Griffin" <g2 at seebelow.org> wrote in message
> news:39BA5B16.FD5CE447 at seebelow.org...
> > Tim Peters wrote:
> > >
> > ...
> > >
> and-from-my-pov-getting-hassled-by-the-fsf's-lawyers-is-no-b
> etter-
> > >     than-getting-hassled-by-microsoft's-ly y'rs  - tim
> >
> > Yup.  It's fine for Stallman and his organization to
> employ and consult
> > lawyers.  <<tea leaves are cheaper>>  However, at whatever
> moment the
> > FSF takes legal action against *anyone* for *any* reason,
> whatever
> > little credibility they have as the software world's
> one-and-only
> > defenders of "freedom" will vanish for all time.
> >
> > go-ahead,-make-my-day-<wink>-ly y'rs,
> >
> > =g2
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> >
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> >
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