I would check with the PSF's lawyers. That's what they're there for. Developers shouldn't be giving legal advice.
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > 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/guido%40python.org -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
