[issue14759] Is LICENSES.txt up to date?

2012-05-09 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: The LICENSE.txt file is just the Python license, which has a rather convoluted history. Newer contributions are all under an Apache-style license from the individual contributors. My understanding (but I'm not a lawyer) is that

[issue14759] Is LICENSES.txt up to date?

2012-05-09 Thread Jesús Cea Avión
Jesús Cea Avión j...@jcea.es added the comment: I am the maintainer of Berkeley DB python bindings, pybsddb: http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm If I recall correctly, Berkeley DB license is something like this: 1. Your code must be open source, if you distribute the programs to

[issue14759] Is LICENSES.txt up to date?

2012-05-09 Thread Jesús Cea Avión
Jesús Cea Avión j...@jcea.es added the comment: Could be useful if you directly talk to Oracle about this and communicate what you learned. It could even influence pybsddb licensing/documentation :). -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue14759] Is LICENSES.txt up to date?

2012-05-09 Thread Jeff Laing
Jeff Laing jeffla...@gmail.com added the comment: @Jesús, as has been pointed out already, the Berkeley DB stuff is not part of Python 3 so I don't see any point in discussing this with Oracle. We don't actually use or need the bsddb module, it's just part of the standard runtime library that