python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.1172,1.1173
Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv11868/Misc Modified Files: NEWS Log Message: Move to version 2 of the PSF license, approved by the Board earlier today. Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.1172 retrieving revision 1.1173 diff -u -d -r1.1172 -r1.1173 --- NEWS 22 Oct 2004 06:22:53 -0000 1.1172 +++ NEWS 23 Oct 2004 03:43:54 -0000 1.1173 @@ -9,6 +9,26 @@ *Release date: XX-XXX-XXXX* +License +------- + +The Python Software Foundation changed the license under which Python +is released, to remove Python version numbers. There were no other +changes to the license. So, for example, wherever the license for +Python 2.3 said "Python 2.3", the new license says "Python". The +intent is to make it possible to refer to the PSF license in a more +durable way. For example, some people say they're confused by that +the Open Source Initiative's entry for the Python Software Foundation +License:: + + http://www.opensource.org/licenses/PythonSoftFoundation.php + +says "Python 2.1.1" all over it, wondering whether it applies only +to Python 2.1.1. + +The official name of the new license is the Python Software Foundation +License Version 2. + Core and builtins ----------------- @@ -83,7 +103,7 @@ Core and builtins ----------------- -- Patch #975056: Restartable signals were not correctly disabled on +- Patch #975056: Restartable signals were not correctly disabled on BSD systems. Consistently use PyOS_setsig() instead of signal(). - The internal portable implementation of thread-local storage (TLS), used @@ -119,7 +139,7 @@ ------- - Patch 1046644: distutils build_ext grew two new options - --swig for - specifying the swig executable to use, and --swig-opts to specify + specifying the swig executable to use, and --swig-opts to specify options to pass to swig. --swig-opts="-c++" is the new way to spell --swig-cpp.
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