BeOpen 2.0 vs ActiveState?

Paul Prescod paulp at ActiveState.com
Fri Jan 19 16:46:15 EST 2001


"Rolander, Dan" wrote:
> 
> I'd like to hear your thoughts on the two different Win32 distributions,
> BeOpen vs. ActiveState. Why should I choose one over the other? The
> ActiveState distro is nice to include some of the critical Win32 extensions,
> but the thing I don't like about it is the requirement for an agreement with
> them to redistribute. If I'm building solutions for others and want to
> distribute the Python libraries along with my source code, I don't want to
> have to get permission from ActiveState to do that first.

You do not need permission from ActiveState to distribute parts of the
Python library. You only need permission to re-distribute the
ActiveState package itself.

 Paul Prescod




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