Python license (2.3)

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 2005-04-13, Robert Kern schreef <rkern at ucsd.edu>:
> Antoon Pardon wrote:
>> Op 2005-04-12, Robert Kern schreef <rkern at ucsd.edu>:
>> 
>>>Antoon Pardon wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>What licence can I use? Somewhere they say you can combine python
>>>>code with GPL code. Does that mean that the resulting code has
>>>>to have both the GPL license as the PSF license, as both seem
>>>>to want that derived work uses the same license.
>>>
>>>No, the PSF does not want that. It does not say so anywhere in the 
>>>license text. Yes, you can GPL the derived work. The licenses are 
>>>compatible.
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> This comes from the license text.
>> 
>> | 2. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement, PSF
>> | hereby grants Licensee a nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide
>> | license to reproduce, analyze, test, perform and/or display publicly,
>> | prepare derivative works, distribute, and otherwise use Python 2.3
>> | alone or in any derivative version, provided, however, that PSF's
>> | License Agreement and PSF's notice of copyright, i.e., "Copyright (c)
>> | 2001, 2002, 2003 Python Software Foundation; All Rights Reserved" are
>> | retained in Python 2.3 alone or in any derivative version prepared by
>> | Licensee.
>> 
>> So what should I understand by: provided, however, that PSF's License
>> Agreement ... are retained in Python 2.3 alone or in any derivative 
>> version prepared by Licensee.
>
> Yes, the license text and the copyright notice must be attached. It 
> doesn't mean that the PSF license is the operative one for the 
> derivative work.

Why attach a license that is not operative. That doesn't make sense
to me and will IMO just create confusion.

> You can put *your* own terms on top for *your* own code 
> as long as you can satisfy the requirements of the PSF license, which 
> are very light.
>
> Read Larry Rosen's book:
>
>    http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm

I skimmed it and it doesn't seem to contain anything that helps me
with the PSF. If it does could you at least point me to the right
chapter.

-- 
Antoon Pardon