[Python-Dev] using openssh's pty code (original) (raw)

Gustavo Niemeyer niemeyer at conectiva.com
Mon Sep 27 16:13:19 CEST 2004

Hello Martin,

>Since openssh must handle pty allocation, its support for pty >operations across various platforms is more robust than python's. >I'd like to use openssh's code to improve on python's pty handling. > >I know the licenses for openssh and python are different. Can anyone >tell me if it's legal to mix openssh code into python? Assuming it >is, are the python maintainers willing to accept a python patch that >contains some openssh code?

Could you change Python's pty module to more closely follow the procedures in OpenSSH, in particular those parts where OpenSSH is more robust?

If he's going to copy/base his work on openssh, the openssh license must surely be respected.

FWIW, that's the issue I was talking about when we discussed the contributor agreement in the PSF list, regarding inclusion of code with foreign licenses. In this occasion, you said a contributor must not include code not authored by him, and cannot sign an agreement on such code.

-- Gustavo Niemeyer http://niemeyer.net

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