[Python-Dev] More optimisation ideas

[Emile van Sebille]

On 2/5/2016 10:38 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
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>
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 at 10:34 Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com
> <mailto:emile at fenx.com>> wrote:

>      >> Except for that nasty licensing issue requiring source code.
>      >>
>      >> Emile
>      > Licensing requires, in the GPL at least, that the *modified*
>     sources be
>      > made *available*, not that they be shipped with the product.
>     Looking at
>      > the Python license, and what tools already do, there is zero need to
>      > ship the source to stay compliant.
>
>     Hmm, the annotated Open Source Definition explicitly states "The program
>     must include source code" -- how did I misinterpret that?
>
>
> Because you left off the part following: "... and must allow
> distribution in source code as well as compiled form". This is entirely
> a discussion of distribution in a compiled form.


Aah, 'must' is less restrictive in this context than I expected. When 
you combine the two halves the first part might be more accurately 
phrased as 'The program must make source code available' rather than 
'must include' which I understood to mean 'ship with'.

Emile