On 2009-08-14 01:42 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > 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?
If you're being a stickler about licenses, you don't need permission to re-release someone else's software under the Apache license, but that doesn't actually make the software fully under the Apache license. The original author never agreed to the terms of the Apache license and never made the guarantees in those terms, and it is those guarantees that the PSF wants. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
