[Pythonmac-SIG] Free Python code and Licenses

has hengist.podd at virgin.net
Fri May 20 13:59:00 CEST 2005


Bob wrote:

>>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.
>
>Well the PSF license has certain issues in that it's only really  meant to be used by the PSF for software wholly owned by the PSF.  
>However, using MIT/BSD style license is equivalent to using PSF since  they are compatible.

More info here:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundationLicenseFaq

HTH

has
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