On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 25, 2008, at 7:33 PM, Kevin Ar18 wrote: > >> >>> Sorry for the confusion. It is the Apache license, as we found out >>> the PSF license can't be applied to anything but Python itself. If >>> Cython becomes part of the standard Python distribution, then we can >>> change to the PSF. >>> >>> I've changed LICENSE.txt t reflect this. >>> >>> - Robert >> >> There is also the option of a "generic PSF license" ... if that >> might be preferred. :) >> >> Per http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundationLicenseFaq >> If you feel the PSF License is the one to use with your code, you >> must change the following parts of the license: >> >> * Replace all occurrences of "Python Software Foundation" and >> "PSF" with your name or organization. >> * Replace "Python" with the name of your project. > > Yep. Actually, the reason we chose the license we did is on that same > page: > > What if I want to contribute my code to the PSF? > > The PSF does not want contributions of any code other than that which > will end up in Python or its standard libraries, or in Jython. If > your code is going to end up in Python or the standard library, the > PSF will require you to: > > * License your code under an acceptable open source license. > These currently include only the Academic Free License and the Apache > License 2.0, although this list may be expanded in the future. (No, > the PSF License is not acceptable; see below) > * Fill out and submit a contributor agreement. > > Though we haven't made any formal movements to have Cython as part of > the Python standard library, this is certainly something we would > like to consider in the future and we want to keep things open in > that direction. Fortunately the Apache License is a fairly widely > used and well known license, and matches well with our goals.
pyprocessing, that was recently accepted, is BSD. And the license in Lib/multiprocessing/__init__.py is BSD. So I don't understand much this apache license requirement, but it seems to me that plain BSD is enough. Ondrej _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
