using the PSF license for one's code

[phil (at) linux2000.com]

Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> 
> In short, we (the PSF) don't care about other uses of this text,
> beyond it being a license for Python.
> 


I have been wondering for some time how it is possible for anything 
other than Python 2.2.x to be licensed under the PSF terms, but there 
seem to be a substantial number of coders out there doing just that.

So where does this leave software such as PythonCard ? 
(http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net) - this is released "under the Python 
2.2 license".

As a result of writing some software of my own and making it available 
for download from my website, I've actually spent some time this last 
few days looking at the various 'Free software' licenses, and have come 
to the conclusion that by far the majority of them are anything but.

I've been apalled (and my apologies for straying slightly off-topic 
here) by the amount of fragmentation that exists in terms of the 
licenses deemed to be either "Open source compatible" and/or "GPL 
compatible" on the OSF website.

The open source community seems to be shooting itself in the foot on 
this particular issue, as far as I can see.

</rant> :-)