Re: Proposal: Reorganizing Python for Python2 (and fixes for the previous proposal)

2001-01-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:32:49PM +0200, Moshe Zadka wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:25:44 -0800, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible for a program to use deprecated 1.5 things and > > not work with 2.0? > Possible, but extremely unlikely. If that's the case, why bother with

Re: Python license and GPL programs

2001-01-15 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Jan 16, Peter Eckersley wrote: > IANAL either, > > but I did do some research into the matter, and you could add a caluse to the > GPL which says something like: > > "If this program is used with Python interpreter code whose license contains a > clause requiring legal disputes to be settled u

Re: Python license and GPL programs

2001-01-15 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:53:15PM -0500, Ben Darnell wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 08:33:19PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Note that the license of Python 2 is not compatible with the GNU General > > Public License (cf. clause 6 of the new Python license). Please don't > > use GPL cod

Re: Python license and GPL programs

2001-01-15 Thread Ben Darnell
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 08:33:19PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Note that the license of Python 2 is not compatible with the GNU General > Public License (cf. clause 6 of the new Python license). Please don't > use GPL code with Python2 without asking the authors of the GPL code for > thei

Re: Python license and GPL programs

2001-01-15 Thread Peter Eckersley
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:17:42PM +0100, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 08:33:19PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I followed the discussion of the Python 2.0 packaging. In the python2-base > > package I saw this text: > > > > Note that the license of Pyth

Re: Python license and GPL programs

2001-01-15 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 08:33:19PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I followed the discussion of the Python 2.0 packaging. In the python2-base > package I saw this text: > > Note that the license of Python 2 is not compatible with the GNU General > Public License (cf. clause 6 of th

Python license and GPL programs

2001-01-15 Thread calvin
Hello, I followed the discussion of the Python 2.0 packaging. In the python2-base package I saw this text: Note that the license of Python 2 is not compatible with the GNU General Public License (cf. clause 6 of the new Python license). Please don't use GPL code with Python2 without asking the

Re: Proposal: Reorganizing Python for Python2 (and fixes for the previous proposal)

2001-01-15 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Peter Eckersley wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 02:10:25PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > You mean all python programs will work with 2.0 until 2.1 is out and > > programs start using its features. At that point every problem I predicted > > is going to bite you. > > > > Exactl