On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Robert Bradshaw<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 13, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:05 PM, William Stein<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> I'm just curious. Why does the PSF reject BSD-licensed code, but >>> accept Apache-licensed code, given that the Apache license is vastly >>> more restrictive than BSD? I can understand this, but find it >>> surprising. >>> >> >> I'm also scratching my head a little on that one, and would love to >> hear the reasons behind it... > > Yes, me too. The page in question is here: http://www.python.org/psf/ > contrib/ . I think it would be much simpler to just use the BSD and > be done with it. > > On the other hand, ctypes is MIT license, and is now included with > Python, so maybe the above is not set in stone.
What stops you from taking a BSD code and relicense it to Apache? You don't need any permission, do you? Ondrej _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
