Licensing question

[Peter Hansen]

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> 
> Adonis wrote:
> 
> > this might provoke a flame war, which i hope that it will not occur, and
> > hope that it can be responded in a more mature intellectual manner. my
> > question is can a program written in Python be sold? i have read the
> > python license and could not find it too clear, or i just have misread it.
> > if not, can the fact of the actual "service/time spent" used to produce
> > the program be a warrant for receiving a profit?
> 
> Sure, you can sell your program. You don't even need to open-source it,
> even though that would be appreciated by the rest of the world, and probably
> by your development team.
> 
> Look at commercial programs like Wing IDE or Zope.

Well, Wing appears to be almost wholly non-free, while Zope appears
to be almost wholly free.  Isn't Zope Corporation's strategy to
sell their services, not the application itself?

-Peter