Freeware Python editor

[DeepBlue]

"Magnus Lie Hetland" <mlh at idi.ntnu.no> wrote in message
news:9rulu9$n2m$1 at tyfon.itea.ntnu.no...
> "Oleg Broytmann" <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1004711703.24605.python-list at python.org...
> [snip]
> > And after you've modified it - do you have
> > rights to distribute it to your friends?
>
> I hope you are not claiming that what you said above is something peculiar
> to Free (as in Gnu/FSF) Software? It would also apply to Open Source
> software. (And, yes, people would be allowed to make non-open-source
> software based on it, and _that_ software might not be free in any
> sense.)
>
This is contested.  check the issue with Virtual Dub.  An open source
project.
Someone used the code to produce an **unopen application.  Virtual Dub guy
does not like and he is threatening to sue.
What you describe is called theft.
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