Op 2005-04-13, Robert Kern schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Antoon Pardon wrote: >> Op 2005-04-12, Robert Kern schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>>Antoon Pardon wrote: >>> >>> >>>>What licence can I use? Somewhere they say you can combine python >>>>code with GPL code. Does that mean that the resulting code has >>>>to have both the GPL license as the PSF license, as both seem >>>>to want that derived work uses the same license. >>> >>>No, the PSF does not want that. It does not say so anywhere in the >>>license text. Yes, you can GPL the derived work. The licenses are >>>compatible. >>> >> >> >> This comes from the license text. >> >> | 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 2.3 >> | 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 Python Software Foundation; All Rights Reserved" are >> | retained in Python 2.3 alone or in any derivative version prepared by >> | Licensee. >> >> So what should I understand by: provided, however, that PSF's License >> Agreement ... are retained in Python 2.3 alone or in any derivative >> version prepared by Licensee. > > Yes, the license text and the copyright notice must be attached. It > doesn't mean that the PSF license is the operative one for the > derivative work.
Why attach a license that is not operative. That doesn't make sense to me and will IMO just create confusion. > You can put *your* own terms on top for *your* own code > as long as you can satisfy the requirements of the PSF license, which > are very light. > > Read Larry Rosen's book: > > http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm I skimmed it and it doesn't seem to contain anything that helps me with the PSF. If it does could you at least point me to the right chapter. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
