On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:01:17PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just leeched the new Python 2.1 alpha 1 release and discovered this
> comment on GPL-incompatibility:
>
> [...]
> After Python 2.0 was released by BeOpen.com, Guido van Rossum and the
> other PythonLabs developers joined Digital Creations. The intention
> is for all intellectual property added from this point on to be owned
> by the Python Software Foundation (PSF), a non-profit that will be
> created modeled after the Apache Software Foundation. We will also
> attempt to get the ownership in previous versions transferred to the
> PSF, and straighten out the license to remove the GPL-incompatibility
> introduced by CNRI's Python 1.6 license. In the interim, Guido van
> Rossum will own all new intellectual property, and no new license is
> added.
> [...]
>
> So it seems that 2.1 will be GPL compatible :)
>
Alas, not for certain ("We will also attempt to get the ownership
in previous versions transfered"). Unless CNRI and BeOpen.com play
ball, there will still be slabs of non-GPL compatible code (all the
changes from 1.5.2 -> 2.0) in Python :(
> That is also an official answer to my previous concern: Python 2.0
> and 1.6 are not GPL compatible. Hrmpf.
If the IP transfer is made, these two releases will both become
GPL-compatible.
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