[pypy-dev] Intellectual property

[Christian Tismer]

David Ascher wrote:
> I'd like to suggest that the issue of intellectual property and license 
> be tackled _very_ early.  Anything else is inexcusable IMO =).

David? Whom are you afraid of? Not me, I hope!

> Proposal:
>  - all of the minipy IP is assigned to the PSF.
>  - the license is either the PSF license or the Academic Free License 
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/academic.php.
>    (the advangate of the AFL is the patent protection, which I suspect 
> may be relevant in this particular implementation).

Hmm. Or do you believe this project can be so
*very* successful that we should be afraid
of larger companies, who might 'see sharp'
upon us. ;-)

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