[Ironpython-users] Licenses shipped with IronPython 2.7.5

Jeff Hardy jdhardy at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 00:25:30 CEST 2015


Sorry for the late reply!

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 2:44 AM, Markus Schaber <m.schaber at codesys.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> it seems that the Licenses shipped with IronPython 2.7.5 are not actually up
> to date.
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> The License.StdLib.txt file seems to be 1:1 copied from the cPython standard
> library, which is not appropriate, as IronPython does not ship OpenSSL nor
> Berkeley DB, as far as I can see. On the other hand, source files like the
> Xmlrpclibpy or validate.py come with their own licenses which are not noted
> within said file.

Boo. Sorry about that.

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> That means I’ll need to do a more thorough investigation as we’re
> redistributing IronPython, and our lawyers want everything to be clean.
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> Does any accurate license file for the standard library shipped with
> IronPython 2.7.5 exist?

Probably not.

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> If not, would you be interested in a contribution of such a file?

Very much so!

- Jeff


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