[Python-ideas] size of the installation of Python on mobile devices

[Paul Moore]

On 1 August 2016 at 12:03, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Or do you mean the precedent that we're OK with folks shipping the
> standard library sans source code? *That* precedent was set when Guido
> chose to use of permissive licensing model for the language definition
> and runtime - while shipping without source code is a bad idea in
> educational contexts, and other situations where having the code on
> hand for inspection by end users is beneficial, Python is used in
> plenty of scenarios where those considerations don't apply.

And the Windows "embedded" distributions already ship without source code.

Paul