Python 2.5 licensing: stop this change

Piet van Oostrum piet at cs.uu.nl
Sat Apr 1 04:13:20 EST 2006


>>>>> "Fuzzyman" <fuzzyman at gmail.com> (F) wrote:

>F> Can I ask for clarification. The charge applies to any commercial use
>F> of a derivative work based on the Python source code ?

>F> Normal applications that use Python, including bunding the standard
>F> CPython as an executable, using tools like py2exe, won't be covered.
>F> Right ?

As I understand it, distributing Python is also covered. For a commercial
vendor $1.25 is peanuts, but for the PSA it is a significant amount (think
about all the Mac OSX copies if Apple decides to switch to 2.5).
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