[Pythonmac-SIG] ANN: Python Metadata Importer

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 19, 2005, at 1:51 PM, Jonathan Wight wrote:

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> On May 19, 2005, at 13:48, Bob Ippolito wrote:
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>> On May 19, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
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>>> On 19-mei-2005, at 17:49, Jonathan Wight wrote:
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>>>> And again with long URLs fixed ;-)
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>>>> I released the code under the GPL
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>>> Why GPL?
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>> Probably because he wants someone else to re-implement it :)
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> Um no. I wouldn't have gone through the bother or writing it,  
> testing it and then releasing it if I wanted someone else to re- 
> implement it.
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> I'm moving all my free source code i write over to the GPL.

If you open your eyes and look around you'll see that most Python  
stuff is released under more liberal licenses (MIT, BSD, PSF and the  
occasional LGPL typically for wrappers over LGPL libraries).  GPL is  
only really appropriate for applications, and even then it's  
questionable.

You're distributing code that would likely be used as a template for  
other importers, yet you're forcing everyone to adopt the GPL or  
negotiate an alternate license.  In most contexts, that makes the  
code pretty useless, unless people are writing imports for themselves  
or for other GPL software.

-bob