BeOpen 2.0 vs ActiveState?

[Rolander, Dan]

Paul,

Thanks for the clarification. But if the package you've built is free, why
restrict redistribution at all?

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paulp at ActiveState.com]
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 4:46 PM
To: Rolander, Dan
Cc: 'python-list at python.org'
Subject: Re: BeOpen 2.0 vs ActiveState?


"Rolander, Dan" wrote:
> 
> I'd like to hear your thoughts on the two different Win32 distributions,
> BeOpen vs. ActiveState. Why should I choose one over the other? The
> ActiveState distro is nice to include some of the critical Win32
extensions,
> but the thing I don't like about it is the requirement for an agreement
with
> them to redistribute. If I'm building solutions for others and want to
> distribute the Python libraries along with my source code, I don't want to
> have to get permission from ActiveState to do that first.

You do not need permission from ActiveState to distribute parts of the
Python library. You only need permission to re-distribute the
ActiveState package itself.

 Paul Prescod