> I still hope that the standard distribution will, in a not too distant future, > bundle more external libraries. as things are today, "including something > in the core" means that you have to transfer code and rights to the PSF.
Your description of how to include something in the core isn't entirely accurate. If you visit http://www.python.org/psf/contrib.html, you'll see that you don't need to transfer your rights to the PSF. Rather, you need to sign an agreement giving the PSF the rights to relicense the code. The PSF currently require that the original submission be licensed under one of two open source licenses. Personally, I can imagine accepting a wider range of initial licenses in the future. As for transferring the code, there needs to be a copy in the Python source control system, sure. There's some unavoidable complexity involved in managing a software distribution composed of third party software packages. At the very least, you've got the original sources and the copy in the distribution package, which leads to a synchronization problem. Jeremy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
