Am 16.11.09 16:51, schrieb Tres Seaver: > Martijn Faassen wrote: > > exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've just contributed a patch to CPython adding os.initgroups based on > >> this extension module: > >> > >> http://svn.zope.org/Zope/trunk/src/initgroups/ > >> > >> The CPython ticket is here: > >> > >> http://bugs.python.org/issue7333 > >> > >> I don't think there should be any licensing issues, as the ZPL is > pretty > >> permissive and the code is very short. However, if there are, > could the > >> code in question be relicensed for CPython under the Python license? > > > I've passed this question along to the Zope Foundation. > > IMO, there isn't really much of anything "protectable" in that module: > it is a micro-thin wrapper around a libc syscall. If I sat down to > write the module from scratch, I bet I would come within a negligable > diff (whitespace, ordering of #includes, etc.) of the same code. > > Just for belt-and-suspeders: as a ZF board member, I would certainly > vote to contribute the code to Python. Same here - discussing about this issue takes longer than writing the code from scratch :)
Andreas
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