Commercial Products in Python

[namekuseijin]

On 21 out, 15:59, "Sebastian Bassi" <sba... at clubdelarazon.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Paulo J. Matos <pocma... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I was just wondering, if you wish to commercialize an application
> > developed in Python, what's the way to go?
>
> You choose the conditions. Nothing in Python license prevents you of
> selling your work.
>
> > I guess the only way is to sell the source, right?
>
> No
>
> > This is because (and tell me if I am wrong):
> > 1) You can't sell an executable because Python doesn't compile to native
> > code (the usual approach, afaik);
>
> There are py2exe utilities to compile Python applications.

I believe those actually just package the bytecode together with a
specific interpreter in a single executable.