[Python-Dev] Mesenne Twister copyright notice (original) (raw)

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com
Sun, 29 Dec 2002 00:58:49 +0100

On zondag, dec 29, 2002, at 00:13 Europe/Amsterdam, Martin v. L=F6wis=20 wrote:

a) we could refuse to incorporate the code in question, or postpone=20 that until an alternative implementation comes along that does not=20 have such requirements, or

This sounds like overkill.

b) we could try to contact the authors of the code in question, to=20 find out whether they would accept other means of acknowledgement=20 (e.g. mentioning their names in the ACKS file, and putting some text=20=

into the copied source - as Raymond already did)

This is probably a good idea. Alternatively, there's another option: c) Add a special directory (Misc/Licenses comes to mind, copy it to=20 lib/python2.3/config/Licenses on install) that has the text files for=20 the various packages that require their license to be in a file of its=20=

own. We could even get all fancy, and install only those licenses for=20 which the corresponding code is actually used.

It is certainly the case that we haven't been very careful with such=20=

things in the past (in particular in binary distributions), but that=20=

is IMO no excuse to be more careful now.

MacPython has always been fairly careful about this, and I wouldn't be=20=

surprised if the same holds for PythonWin.