I've been watching the flame war about licenses with some interest.
There are many motivations for those who participate in this sector, so
disagreements over licenses reflect those agendas.
I don't have an agenda, at least not right now. I do plan on writing a
few programs.
These will be tools
Thanks to everyone so far. You've helped a lot. (BTW, I read this
through Google Groups. Somehow they've gotten about 24 hours behind,
so I'm seeing your replies a day late.)
The biggest misconception I had was that the license could force the
code to stay open source. You're right. What I do
> First thing first, you need to find out if you are an
> "employee", not in the normal sense, but legal sense.
You're right. I know there has been a lot of case law to come down the
pike over the years, due to all sorts of issues. One of my friends is
a cab driver. His contract says that he is
I guess I'm a little confused, and this certainly comes from not yet
having tried to do anything with Python on a web server.
I remarked once to a Python programmer that it appeared to me that if I
had a web page that called a Python program, that the server would:
1. Load Python
2. Run the progra
