[Python-Dev] More optimisation ideas (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Fri Feb 5 13:38:14 EST 2016

On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 at 10:34 Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com> wrote:

On 2/5/2016 9:37 AM, Alexander Walters wrote: > > > On 2/5/2016 12:27, Emile van Sebille wrote: >> On 2/1/2016 9:20 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: >>> On 02/01/2016 08:40 AM, R. David Murray wrote: >> >>>> On the other hand, if the distros go the way Nick has (I think) been >>>> advocating, and have a separate 'system python for system scripts' that >>>> is independent of the one installed for user use, having the >>>> system-only >>>> python be frozen and sourceless would actually make sense on a >>>> couple of >>>> levels. >>> >>> Agreed. >> >> Except for that nasty licensing issue requiring source code. >> >> Emile > Licensing requires, in the GPL at least, that the modified sources be > made available, not that they be shipped with the product. Looking at > the Python license, and what tools already do, there is zero need to > ship the source to stay compliant.

Hmm, the annotated Open Source Definition explicitly states "The program must include source code" -- how did I misinterpret that?

Because you left off the part following: "... and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form". This is entirely a discussion of distribution in a compiled form. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20160205/8fb3a3d9/attachment-0001.html>

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