[Speed] merging PyPy and Python benchmark suite

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
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>> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
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>> >> Antoine's right on this one - just use and redistribute the upstream
>> >> components under their existing licenses. CPython itself is different
>> >> because the PSF has chosen to reserve relicensing privileges for that,
>> >> which
>> >> requires the extra permissions granted in the contributor agreement.
>> >
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>> > But I'm talking about the benchmarks themselves, not the wholesale
>> > inclusion
>> > of Mako, etc. (which I am not worried about since the code in the
>> > dependencies is not edited). Can we move the PyPy benchmarks themselves
>> > (e.g. bm_mako.py that PyPy has) over to the PSF benchmarks without
>> > getting
>> > contributor agreements.
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>> The PyPy team need to put a clear license notice (similar to the one
>> in the main pypy repo) on their benchmarks repo. But yes, I believe
>> you're right that copying that code as it stands would technically be
>> a copyright violation, even if the PyPy team intend for it to be
>> allowed.
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>> If you're really concerned, check with Van first, but otherwise I'd
>> just file a bug with the PyPy folks requesting that they clarify the
>> licensing by adding a LICENSE file and in the meantime assume they
>> intended for it to be covered by the MIT license, just like PyPy
>> itself.
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>> The PSF license is necessary for CPython because of the long and
>> complicated history of that code base. We can use simpler licenses for
>> other stuff (like the benchmark suite) and just run with license in =
>> license out rather than preserving the right for the PSF to change the
>> license.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nick.
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>> --
>> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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> First, I believe all the unalden swallow stuff (including the runner) is
> under the PSF licence, though you'd have to check the repo for a license
> file or bug Jeffrey and Collin.  Someone (fijal) will add an MIT license for
> our half of the repo.
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>
> Alex

Done. PyPy benchmarks are MIT