On Aug 13, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:05 PM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> I'm just curious.  Why does the PSF reject BSD-licensed code, but
>> accept Apache-licensed code, given that the Apache license is vastly
>> more restrictive than BSD?  I can understand this, but find it
>> surprising.
>>
>
> I'm also scratching my head a little on that one, and would love to
> hear the reasons behind it...

Yes, me too. The page in question is here: http://www.python.org/psf/ 
contrib/ . I think it would be much simpler to just use the BSD and  
be done with it.

On the other hand, ctypes is MIT license, and is now included with  
Python, so maybe the above is not set in stone.

- Robert


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