On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:26:00AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 18-Apr-2001 Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 03:33:45PM +0200, Vasko Miroslav wrote:
> >> as Python 2.1 is out, there is no need to keep Python2 and Python152
> >> in Debian, I think.
> >>
> >> it looks like 2.1 has GPL-compatible license (it has, in fact, three
> >> licenses)
> >
> > Thanks for pointing out the changes in LICENSE. Since there wasn't any big
> > noise lately, I thought they had postponed any actions after 2.1.
> >
>
> last I checked it only helped derivatives of python, not python itself.
Pardon me, but then couldn't we just release a derivative of Python, e.g.
"Dython", change a few things, so that it is a true derivative, and then
this might be compatible with the GPL ? I don't understand this...
The LICENSE file in 2.1 seems to imply that the license issues with the FSF
could be settled, but I'm currently trying to get a word from RMS on this.
Gregor
