The State of Python

[Steve Lamb]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:38:55 -0500, Guido van Rossum <guido at beopen.com> wrote:
>The announcement is waiting for final negotiations about GPL
>compatibility of the new license; BeOpen's CTO, Bob Weiner, is
>confident that the issue will be resolved one way or another by
>Friday.

    Stupid question: Why is it everyone and their mother is coming out with a
new open source license for their project instead of sticking with the
established ones?  I mean, it causes headaches trying to keep all of the
licenses legally compatible with one another which can cause problems for open
source down the road when these licenses are actually put to the legal test.

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