Still no new license -- but draft text available

[Tim Peters]

[QuoteMstr]
> ...
> Seriously, how much trouble is it to put up a web site with the
> source available for download? It's not, especially for a
> company that will supposedly manufacture and distribute thousands
> of units of this appliance.

[Grant Griffin]
> Sure, that part's easy--if you're doing it yourself.  But if you
> work for The Big Corporation, just _try_ to get that done.  Oh, and
> try to convince the corporate lawyers that the legal risk (as they
> see it) of using GPL software is worth the benefit.  And try to
> convince your management that it's worth fighting the corporate
> lawyers.

Indeed so, but not restricted to The Big Corporation.  The Little
Corporation may be even worse, as needing to spend just a few hundred lousy
dollars on a hasty legal opinion may mean nobody gets Free Pizza anymore for
working long nights.  It's just not worth it to *anyone*.

Python is-- like the TV show for which it's named --subversive.  If anyone
is baffled by Guido's anti-marketing of Python or its philosophy, they
haven't watched enough Terry Gilliam animations <wink>.

you-buy-python-in-the-end-because-you-don't-have-to-
    and-isn't-that-a-delight!-ly y'rs  - tim