[Python-Dev] Python 2.0 License Discussion Mailing List Created (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@beopen.com
Tue, 29 Aug 2000 07:36:38 -0500

[Greg Ewing]

> meaning that Python > 2.0 can be redistributed under the Python 2.0 license or under the > GPL

Are you sure that's possible? Doesn't the CNRI license require that its terms be passed on to users of derivative works? If so, a user of Python 2.0 couldn't just remove the CNRI license and replace it with the GPL.

I don't know the answer to this, but Bob Weiner, BeOpen's CTO, claims that according to BeOpen's lawyer this is okay. I'll ask him about it.

I'll post his answer (when I get it) on the license-py20 list. I encourage to subscribe and repost this question there for the archives!

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