Awesome thanks for your response Mr. BDFL. I am actually using this in an educational context at a community center here in Oakland. So it's a case where education wants the fork, haha. And I'm hoping that some of our young programmers are future Python core developers :)
Cheers !! On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > The PSF license indeed allows this. (Note that "Python GPL license" is > incorrect usage -- the PSF license is most definitely not the GPL -- that's > "Gnu Public License", a totally different license.) GitHub is a fine > platform for this. > > Note that you're effectively forking IDLE this way -- it may not be easy to > get the changes that you applied here accepted back into the CPython repo, > because of backward compatibility concerns (it's easy to apply a change that > breaks on some platform you've never heard of, or for some user whose > workflow is different than yours -- see also https://xkcd.com/1172/). > Personally, I think it's fine to fork IDLE, and I think eventually it should > be removed from the stdlib -- but this is controversial, as educators often > are forced to rely on the IDLE that is bundled with the Python installer. > But that's a longer discussion. > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Sean Felipe Wolfe <ether....@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hello IDLE-ers, >> >> I'm considering putting a copy of the idle code on github, to leverage >> the excellent tools that platform provides and be able to incorporate >> various fixes that have been discussed but not implemented in the >> standard distribution as of yet. >> >> The Python GPL license is pretty simple and from my reading, grants >> the ability to do this as long as I include a copyright notice. >> >> A few questions then: >> a) does anybody think it's illegal to do ? >> b) would it help make idle improvements easier to access ? >> c) is there a better platform, ie. launchpad or bitbucket? >> >> I have used bitbucket for pygame, and although the toolset isn't as >> easy to use, maybe it makes sense. >> >> I'm curious to hear what you all think about this. >> >> -- >> A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, >> if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. >> - Abraham Maslow >> _______________________________________________ >> IDLE-dev mailing list >> IDLE-dev@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev > > > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) -- A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. - Abraham Maslow _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list IDLE-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
