[issue8998] add crypto routines to stdlib

Georg Brandl report at bugs.python.org
Tue Sep 21 09:04:03 CEST 2010


Georg Brandl <georg at python.org> added the comment:

> If that text is deemed to be advertising by Eric Young and a court of law

The license of a software product cannot affect software that is not even aware of that said product.  (A patent, or a trademark can.)  It governs the use of that product, not of others.  "Features of this library" means really features of *that* library, as specifically implemented in that library.

If a license for one specific software product could affect all other software with such a primitive clause, I don't want to think how Richard Stallman would have worded the GPL :)

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