[Pythonmac-SIG] [FWD] OSABase

[Jack Jansen]

On 4 Jun 2004, at 01:39, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> The license scenario looks bad.  You can't even download it without 
> emailing him and saying "yes I comply with this license".  We'd 
> probably be better off starting from scratch unless you can convince 
> him to make his stuff open source under a PSF compatible license.

Yes, very bad. Weird, too: this reference to " Because of issues 
pertaining to registering OSA components with the MacOS, you may not 
redistribute products derived from the personal edition of TextOSA. " 
has me a bit worried. Would there really be something behind this, or 
would it just be a smokescreen?

> There is approximately no chance whatsoever of OSA component support 
> making it into Python 2.4.  The first alpha is almost out the door, 
> and there isn't even a prototype or PEP that detains the whys and 
> hows.  It would be great if we had it, but it won't be a standard 
> feature until Python 2.5 at the earliest.

I beg to differ. As far as I can see, the component is completely 
separate from the distribution. It would use the framework from the 
distribution, but that's about it. There's no reason it couldn't be 
grafted onto the current 2.3 distribution on Panther. The only problem 
is: someone has to do the work:-)

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