Licensing question

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Mon May 20 04:13:51 EDT 2002


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.
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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org



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