[python-ldap] python-ldap licensing ?

[Michael Ströder]

Ilya Etingof wrote:
> On 05/05/2017 02:27 PM, Michael Ströder wrote:
>> Amedee Potier wrote:
>>> thanks for your work on this python-ldap project. Great stuff.
>>>
>>> One question : what is the license associated to this product ? Can it be used in
>>> commercial applications or not ? What are the obligations a product that would bundle
>>> your packages ?
>>
>> Unfortunately the term "Python-style license" introduced by myself is pretty blurry.
>>
>> But basically the intention is that you can freely use python-ldap just as Python
>> itself.
>
> From my experience, boldly sticking to one of the standard FOSS licenses
> tend to benefit software adoption. It might be even more applicable to
> LDAP, as it's more of an enterprise application as opposed to end-user one.

Basically broad adoption was my intention by saying "Python-style license". Again, I had
to learn many years ago that this was a beginner's fault. Today I'd choose APL-2.0. But
it's nearly impossible to fix that retroactively. That's also one reason why I always
recommended a new clean-room implementation for Python 3.

Anyway: Feel free to simply use it. David (original author of C wrapper part) and me will
never stand in anyone's way using python-ldap.

Ciao, Michael.

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