[pypy-dev] Intellectual property

Marc Recht marc at informatik.uni-bremen.de
Sun Jan 12 23:31:07 CET 2003


> I'd like to suggest that the issue of intellectual property and license
> be tackled _very_ early.  Anything else is inexcusable IMO =).
I thought about posting a mail like this just some minutes before I saw 
your mail.. :-)

> 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).
IMHO the PSF licese would be the best choice. It the easiest way for both 
sides (MiniPy and CPython) to exchange code.

Marc

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil." -- Donald E. Knuth
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