On 2/5/2016 10:38 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 at 10:34 Emile van Sebille <em...@fenx.com <mailto:em...@fenx.com>> wrote:
>> Except for that nasty licensing issue requiring source code. >> >> Emile > Licensing requires, in the GPL at least, that the *modified* sources be > made *available*, not that they be shipped with the product. Looking at > the Python license, and what tools already do, there is zero need to > ship the source to stay compliant. Hmm, the annotated Open Source Definition explicitly states "The program must include source code" -- how did I misinterpret that? Because you left off the part following: "... and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form". This is entirely a discussion of distribution in a compiled form.
Aah, 'must' is less restrictive in this context than I expected. When you combine the two halves the first part might be more accurately phrased as 'The program must make source code available' rather than 'must include' which I understood to mean 'ship with'.
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