Dear Debian Folks, I'm writing to because some Debian folks have written me before about some issues with the Grail and JPython licenses (go to www.python.org and follow pointers to Grail or JPython in the left sidebar if you want to see the current licenses). Gregor Hoffleit suggested that I mail this here. I have no idea who reads this, so please bear with me.
I'm in the process of revising the licenses for Grail and JPython. Before I commit to a particular license, I'd like to get feedback from Debian on the draft license below. In particular, would software with this license be acceptable for inclusion in the Debian distribution? I believe I've addressed the comments on previous versions of the licenses. I have to work with corporate management and lawyers here, who have approved a draft very similar to this as a template for a license for non-commercial use of other software to be released by CNRI. The license I show here does not have the restriction on non-commercial use -- but I'm not sure if the corporate lawyers might want to change the rest of the license because of this. But if this version in't good enough for Debian I'm not even going to propose this one to the corporate lawyers before discussing this more with Debian. A note on clause 4 (about OROmatcher, a regular expression package for Java), which only applies to JPython. I expect that this may be a show-stopper for Debian, since OROmatcher is only available in binary form. I propose to have a developers release that does not include OROmatcher or clause 4, which can be safely included in Debial distributions, and an end-user release which has those (as well as other goodies, like the standard Python library) which you may have to avoid (actually, Gregor mentioned that it might still be available from the Debian ftp site). The Grail license will be the same, without clause 4, and with an (R) sign attached to the Grail name, because it is a CNRI registered trademark. This may happen for JPython as well. Let me know if this license works for Debian, and if not, what problems it has. Remember: I can't promise that this will be the license -- but I'm trying! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) ====================================================================== JPython 1.0.x CNRI LICENSE AGREEMENT ______________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. BY CLICKING ON THE SOFTWARE RELEASE BUTTON YOU ARE DEEMED TO HAVE ACCEPTED THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT. ______________________________________________________________________ 1. 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