Piet van Oostrum wrote: >>>>>> "M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> (M-L) wrote: [ ... ] >>M-L> """ >>M-L> The Lists do not control "software" which is either: >>M-L> 1. ... >>M-L> 2. "In the public domain". >>M-L> """ [ ... ] > But Python is not in the public domain. Open source != public domain. > Public domain means there is no copyright and no license attached to it, > AFAIK.
I believe that "public domain" has different meanings in copyright law and in crypto law. In crypto law I think it means "generally available", in that it's silly to impose import or export restrictions on something that's already obtainable everywhere. Mel. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list