Steve Holden wrote: > Leif K-Brooks wrote: >> Ben Finney wrote: >> >>> So long as you're not distributing some or all of Python itself, or a >>> derivative work, the license for Python has no legal effect on what >>> license you choose for your own work. >> >> >> How many Python programs use nothing from the standard library? > > That doesn't matter either. The required copyright statements are > included in the Python interpreter. There is no reason to fear > distributing Python as a part of either open source or proprietary > works, and Guido framed the original license to allow precisely such > uses. Later versions have retained the same spirit.
Yes, I know that. I was replying to Ben Finney's claim that in a hypothetical world where Python was licensed under the GPL, there would still be no restriction on distributing Python programs under a closed-source license. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
