<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I am trying to convince my client to use Python in his new product. He > is worried about the license issues. Can somebody there to point me any > good commercial applications developed using python ?. The licence > clearly says Python can be used for commercial applications.
We are in a weird catch-22 type situation here. Because the license is so open, companies that use Python just use it. No payment, no curtesy registration, no verifiable trace unless they care to disclose (and most don't). The license could be paraphrased as "Don't sue us or do anything that would cause anyone else to sue us and we won't sue you." There is a posted request for thank you donations but not enough commercial users do so to even hire one full time programmer, let alone a lawyer (above the bare minimum required for PSF to legally function). The PSF is about as far from the RIAA and MPAA as possible. There are Python Success Stories at the Python site and elsewhere (try Google on the newsgroup. You could also agree to be responsible for any legal action initiated by the PSF not due to obvious malfeance, like trying to register a copyright on the Python source. Or you could suggest that they purchase a license with a donation to the PSF. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
