[Python-Dev] Licensing // PSF // Motion of non-confidence

Simon Cross hodgestar+pythondev at gmail.com
Tue Jul 6 00:21:23 CEST 2010


On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> As Brett noted, yes, the LICENSE file is complicated, but most people
> don't bother reading it themselves - they ask what FSF and OSI think
> of it, and get the answers "BSD style" and "GPL compatible" and are
> happy with that.

Presumably at least the BEOPEN.COM LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR PYTHON 2.0
can be removed from the LICENSE file because otherwise it appears that
answer to "GPL compatible" must be no?

Schiavo
Simon


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