Re: Python 2.x and GPL (official blurb form 2.1a1)
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:58:13AM +1100, Peter Eckersley wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:01:17PM +0100, calvin@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> > So it seems that 2.1 will be GPL compatible :)
>
> Alas, not for certain ("We will also attempt to get the ownership
> in previous versions transfered"). Unless CNRI and BeOpen.com play
> ball, there will still be slabs of non-GPL compatible code (all the
> changes from 1.5.2 -> 2.0) in Python :(
Tangentially related question: Am I correct in thinking that the current
Python 2 in the Debian archive is LGPL (Lesser GPL) compatible?
Pygame, which I am packaging, is licensed with LGPL, and I want to be sure
that it would be allowed in the Debian archive.
Francis
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