The State of Python

[Neil Hodgson]

> If Python had the GPL-license we would never have gotten into this mess.
My
> main argument for *not* using Python at first was that it didn't
> have the GPL attached to it... Yes, the GPL is more restricive but you
can't
> have both ways.

   If earlier versions of Python had been GPLed, the copyright owner could
still have changed the license for 1.6. No different from the current
situation.

   Neil