using the PSF license for one's code

[Donnal Walter]

David Brown:
> There are basically two categories of open source licences, as far as I can
> see - gpl-type licences (you can use our source, but you have to apply the
> same licence to the modified code) and bsd-type licences (you can use our
> source for anything you want, but you have to acknowledge the copyright).  I
> am a great believer in the spirit of a licence rather than the letter of the
> licence, and as far as I can see, the Python licence is in the same spirit
> as the BSD licence.  I don't know how that would stand up in court, however,
> but hopefully it will never have to.

Well, I'm not likely to take anyone to court, and neither is my
University for that matter.

For entities like PSF that distribute a lot of copies of their
software, it probably makes sense to write their own specific
licenses, but for everyone else (like me) it seems to boil down to
choosing GPL or BSD. Who would have guessed that it could be this
simple? (And I am not being sarcastic; this thread has helped me
considerably.) Thanks.

Donnal Walter
Arkansas Children's Hospital
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences