Picking a license

[Ed Keith]

Consider the following scenario:

Three programmers, call them A, B & C, independently develop three different algorithms to perform a O(ln(n)) search. Each decide to release it for 'free'.

A decides to make it 'free', by publishing compiled object code for all major platforms and putting them in the public domain.

B decides to make it 'free' by publishing the source code under the GPL.

C decides to make it 'free' by publishing the source code under the Boost license.

Which library should be incorporated into the next Python release?, and why?

I vote for C, but would like to hear any arguments for another position.

   -EdK

Ed Keith
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