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?
In particular, the Apache license includes language that explicitly allows you to sublicense. The BSD license does not, so BSD->PSF or BSD->Apache->PSF is murkier than Apache->PSF. -- 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
