On May 19, 2005, at 1:51 PM, Jonathan Wight wrote: > > On May 19, 2005, at 13:48, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > >> >> On May 19, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 19-mei-2005, at 17:49, Jonathan Wight wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> And again with long URLs fixed ;-) >>>> >>>> I released the code under the GPL >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Why GPL? >>> >>> >> >> Probably because he wants someone else to re-implement it :) >> > > Um no. I wouldn't have gone through the bother or writing it, > testing it and then releasing it if I wanted someone else to re- > implement it. > > I'm moving all my free source code i write over to the GPL.
If you open your eyes and look around you'll see that most Python stuff is released under more liberal licenses (MIT, BSD, PSF and the occasional LGPL typically for wrappers over LGPL libraries). GPL is only really appropriate for applications, and even then it's questionable. You're distributing code that would likely be used as a template for other importers, yet you're forcing everyone to adopt the GPL or negotiate an alternate license. In most contexts, that makes the code pretty useless, unless people are writing imports for themselves or for other GPL software. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
