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Re: CNRI Python License question



Le lundi 25 juin 2007 à 20:17 +0200, Carlos Galisteo a écrit :
>  Upstream source is released under the CNRI Python License [2] but AFAIK,
> the DFSG compliant 'Python License' is the PSF [3] one.
> 
>  As you can read in the PSF license full text,  there's a controversy about
> the CNRI (1.6.1) compatibility with GPL, and my debian-legal@l.d.o archive
> research gives no conclusive data (all threads seems to refer to CNRI 1.6,
> not 1.6.1), for which I'm uncertain about the CNRI DFSG accordance.
> 
>  I'm asking here because I guess I'm not the first person with this doubt,
> and it's even possible there are packages already uploaded (or rejected)
> under the same license. 

This question should have been directed to debian-legal.

AIUI this is a simple free license with a choice-of-law provision. It is
incompatible with the GPL, but looks fine for Debian.

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