[Python-ideas] Dict literal use for custom dict classes

[Joseph Jevnik]

The two suggestion I made were for users to put in their own code _without_
needing to upstream it into CPython. I realize that the python license is
incompatible with the GPL.

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Joseph Jevnik <joejev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> This code is available under the GPLv2 license here:
>> https://github.com/llllllllll/codetransformer/blob/master/codetransformer/transformers/literals.py#L15
>>
>
> Good thing you recommended against its use :-), because we can't use GPL
> contributions for Python. Quoting the Python license: "All Python licenses,
> unlike the GPL, let you distribute a modified version without making your
> changes open source." (https://docs.python.org/3/license.html .
>
> --
> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
>
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