[EuroPython] ProgrammingContest

Stefane Fermigier fermigier@clara1.tuxeon.com
Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:05:15 +0100


On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:40:37AM +0100, Alexandre Fayolle wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:
> 
> > http://europython.zope.nl/wiki/ProgrammingContest
> 
> Sorry to raise the issue of licensing once more, but I think the words you
> used are slightly confusing.
> 
>  * "we cannot accept entries that require commercial software or other
> software that is not provided as free software or under GPL." 
>   -> This seems to imply that GPLed software is not free software.
> 
>  * "The participants agree that their application free software, protected
> by the GPL licence."
>   -> This is python we're talking about, and the GPL is not the default
> licence in the community, even if it is commonly used. I think imposing
> the GPL, rather than, for instance, the Python Licence, is an error. 

Right. Any license stamped as free software by the FSF and Open Source by
the OSI should do.

	S.