Questions for Tim Peters

[joneshenry at my-deja.com]

Could you clarify the following statements you made?

From: "Tim Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com>
To: <python-list at python.org>
Subject: RE: The State of Python
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 01:50:53 -0400
Message-ID: <LNBBLJKPBEHFEDALKOLCOEBCGNAA.tim_one at email.msn.com>

   "CNRI claims that the existing (CWI) Python license isn't
    a valid license, and while that claim makes little sense
    to me I'm not a lawyer."

If CNRI the copyright holder doesn't think the license
is valid, then how are they giving permission to use,
modify, or distribute the code?

From: "Tim Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com>
To: <python-list at python.org>
Subject: RE: The State of Python
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 02:41:08 -0400

   "Python has never been released with a CNRI license.
    It's still using the CWI license it had from the very
    start.  That's what CNRI wants to change, although why
    they waited to force the issue until Python was gone is
    unknown to me.  CNRI does hold the copyright, though."

So CNRI actively agreed to let Python through 1.5.2 and 1.6a2
retain the CWI license?

   "If enough people turn out to hate it, I personally
    don't see anything to stop them grabbing Python 1.6a2
    and building on that (1.6a2 being the last release
    that came with the old Python license).  For that
    matter, they may even be able to grab the current
    CVS tarball.  Whether CNRI would fight that is an,
    umm, "interesting" question.  I don't know what their
    goal is here, so it's darned hard to guess."

Which is the interesting question?  Is it about using the
current CVS tarball or is about using 1.6a2 or 1.5.2?





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