On Jan 04, 2011, at 07:13 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: >My problem is in python-cerealizer: > >,---- >| # Cerealizer >| # Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Jean-Baptiste LAMY >| # Copyright (C) 2008 Peter Eckersley >| # >| # This program is free software. >| # It is available under the Python licence. >`---- > >Upstream licensed its software using Python license to allow the >inclusion into Python.
I think this is essentially meaningless. ;) The "Python license" is an imprecise way to refer to the Python Software Foundation License that Python itself is released under. It is not correct to use that license unaltered in third party libraries, even to allow its inclusion in Python. For that, the PSF only accepts contributions licensed under the Academic Free License v2.1, or the Apache License v2.0. Together with a signed contributor agreement, the code would then be relicensed under the PSF license for release with Python. All the gory details are in the following links: http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/ http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/ http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundationLicenseFaq Cheers, -Barry
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