I was thumbing through the files looking to update copyright years this evening and came across utilities/cleanarch.py. I noticed it has a GPL license: # Copyright (C) 2001,2002 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License # as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 # of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. I know in the past the PSF has generally not liked to see any GPL files in the Python distribution (license pollution?). Does anyone use this tool? Can/should we get rid of it? I see contrib/spambayes.el is GPL'd as well. Skip
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I know in the past the PSF has generally not liked to see any GPL files in the Python distribution (license pollution?). Does anyone use this tool? Can/should we get rid of it? I see contrib/spambayes.el is GPL'd as well.
I don't personally have any problem shipping a package with mixed licenses, but then I'm not the author of the GPL'd code, nor a lawyer. The only problem I could see would be if we claimed anywhere (the website, the installer, the readme) that "Spambayes is licensed under the PSF license" or similar - that ought to change to cover all the licenses of all the code (which makes you see where the PSF is coming from - and they *have* lawyers. 8-) -- Richie Hindle richie@entrian.com
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