On 30/03/2008, iu2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem is that including Python's license in the binary, which as > I understand is a must do
I think you only need to include the PSF license if you modify python itself. from http://www.python.org/psf/license/: > There is no GPL-like "copyleft" restriction. Distributing binary-only > versions of Python, modified or not, is allowed. There is no requirement to > release any of your source code. You can also write extension modules for > Python and provide them only in binary form. > You cannot remove the PSF's copyright notice from either the source code > or the resulting binary. > It sounds like you cannot *remove* the copyright notice from files that already include it (like the Python source code and binaries. Not applications written in Python). >From the license itself: > 2. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement, PSF > hereby grants Licensee a nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide > license to reproduce, analyze, test, perform and/or display publicly, > prepare derivative works, distribute, and otherwise use Python 2.4 > alone or in any derivative version, provided, however, that PSF's > License Agreement and PSF's notice of copyright, i.e., "Copyright (c) > 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Python Software Foundation; All Rights Reserved" > are retained in Python 2.4 alone or in any derivative version prepared > by Licensee. > Correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks, Roee.
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