> Guido van Rossum writes: > > Ask your own lawyer. John Hasler: > We don't have one. We cannot afford to pay attorneys, and they evidently > do not consider free software projects worthy of their pro bono efforts. > > > I really can't tell what harm there is here. > > The license clearly grants the right to redistribute to anyone who gets the > software from your site, but do those who receive copies from a licensee > also get a license, or just a copy? This is important because we require > that anyone who receives a copy from us also get the right to redistribute.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I repeat my opinion that the license allows this. > Consider Cheap Bytes. They download Debian from the Debian archives and > the press and sell CD's. Could they get a nasty letter from CNRI's lawyers > telling them they must destroy all their CD's because they do not have a > license from CNRI? I don't think this is the case, but it would be better > to have it clear. Hmm... Cheap Bytes must have a lawyer they can have look into this if they are as paranoid as you are. But I repeat my statement above -- I think there is no danger about this. It is certainly not my intention to send nasty letters to people who increase the distribution of JPython or Grail! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
