Le Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:30:23 +0100, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> a écrit : > Serhiy Storchaka, 27.01.2013 17:52: > > Is Boost Software License [1] compatible with Python license? Can I > > steal some code from Boost library [2]? > > > > [1] http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt > > [2] http://www.boost.org/ > > Depends on what you want to do with it after stealing it. > > Assuming you want to add it to CPython, two things to consider: > > - Isn't Boost C++ code? > > - Usually, people who contribute code to CPython must sign a > contributors agreement. As far as I understand it, that would be > those who wrote it, not those who "stole" it from them.
That's the only potentially contentious point. Otherwise, the boost license looks like a fairly ordinary non-copyleft free license, and therefore should be compatible with the PSF license. That said, we already ship "non-contributed" code such as zlib, expat or libffi; and even in the core you can find such code such as David Gay's dtoa.c. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
