[Python-Dev] Still no new license -- but draft text available

Paul Duffin pduffin at hursley.ibm.com
Fri Aug 4 07:37:54 EDT 2000


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > Is the license on 2.0 going to look the same ? I mean we now
> > already have two seperate licenses and if BeOpen adds another
> > two or three paragraphs will end up with a license two pages
> > long.
> 
> Good question.  We can't really keep the license the same because the
> old license is very specific to CNRI.  I would personally be in favor
> of using the BSD license for 2.0.
> 
> > Oh, how I loved the old CWI license...
> 
> Ditto!
> 

If you could manage to use the BSD license for 2.0 somehow it would be
so much simpler.



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