[Pythonmac-SIG] Free Python code and Licenses

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri May 20 13:43:57 CEST 2005


Kenneth McDonald <kenneth.m.mcdonald at gmail.com> writes:

> I have nothing against the GPL (well, yes I do, I think it makes the
> free and commercial software sides enemies, but that's a completely
> different topic), but I do think it would be nice if all free Python
> software was released under the same license as Python itself. Python
> is an elegant language, and having all kinds of different Python
> modules under all sorts of different licenses is, well...inelegant.

As Bob said, you really don't want use the PSF license for your own
code.  If you think you do, use MIT/X11.

Cheers,
mwh
(who actually quite likes the LGPL for some things)

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