[Soc2006] Wing IDE licenses for Python SoCers

[sdeibel]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Greg Wilson wrote:
> > > On 6/13/06, sdeibel <sdeibel at wingware.com> wrote:
> > > Wingware would like to offer free permanent licenses for Wing IDE
> > > Professional to students that have been awarded Summer of Code
> > > grants for Python.
> 
> > On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Jon Rosebaugh wrote:
> > That's very kind of you, but I've already been given free permanent
> > licenses of Eric, SPE, SciTE, and EMACS. What's more, I obtained those
> > licenses before I was ever any PR benefit to those projects.
> 
> Greg Wilson writes:
> I don't think the sarcasm was either necessary or appropriate.

Not a big deal, but thanks. :-)

I always try to encourage people to look a bit deeper at open 
licensing than just the FSF's take.  That's certainly appropriate 
here given that Python is not GPL and many in the community are 
strongly against the GPL's all-or-nothing approach.

Also, so much open source, including the products of SoC, is 
funded by closed source companies that it's valuable, perhaps 
even interesting, to look a bit more carefully at the subtle 
relationships between open and closed source "in the wild".

That said, my goal in offering Wing licenses is not promotion 
(I try to do it as quietly as possible) but to help people get 
work done.

- Stephan