[Python-ideas] Monitor implementation for the stdlib?

[Guido van Rossum]

> > > > Why not put it on a googlecode svn repository?
> > >
> > > They're picky about licensing.  I don't think I can put a patch to
> > > python on there.
> >
> > Are you sure? Where do you read this? The way I see it, you can't make
> > something available using the Python license (and for good reason,
> > it's a crappy license even though it's OSI-approved and
> > GPL-compatible), but there's no reason you can't release patches to
> > Python under the Apache 2 license -- after all the PSF suggests that
> > license for all contributions *to* Python as well.

2007/10/22, Adam Olsen <rhamph at gmail.com>:
> Since the patch is based on code using the Python license I'm not sure
> how the diffs I post will be *completely* under my license.

Doesn't matter. The PSF license allows you to relicense it.

> I planned to ask the PSF to help me sort out what *exactly* needed to
> do wrt licensing before posting my patch.

Please do; they will be happy to explain this to you.

> > > I will eventually post on python's bug tracker.
> >
> > Sounds hardly the place for a variant of the language.
>
> I haven't decided if I should view it as a language variant or as an
> enhancement.

>From the description you mailed me long ago it's clearly a language variant.

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