Re: Python-2.1 becoming Debian's default Python version

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:10:31PM +0100, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
| * Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> [011107 15:04]:
| > Neil Schemenauer <nas@python.ca> writes:
| > 
| > > It's probably better to check if you're unsure rather than speculate or
| > > guess.  From the 2.1.1 LICENCE file:
| > >
| > >     Python 1.6.1 is essentially the same as Python 1.6, with a few minor
| > >     bug fixes, and with a different license that enables later versions
| > >     to be GPL-compatible.
| > 
| > The license claims to be GPL compatible, but according to the FSF, it
| > isn't, because of the choice-of-law clause.
|                                                                 ^^^
| 
| Can you provide any proof for this claim ?
| 
| From http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html:
| 
|   The License of Python 1.6a2 and earlier versions.
|       This is a free software license and is compatible with the GNU
|       GPL.  Please note, however, that newer versions of Python are
|       under other licenses (see below).
|     
|   The License of Python 2.0.1, 2.1.1, and newer versions.
                                  ^^^^
|       This is a free software license and is compatible with the GNU
|       GPL.  Please note, however, that intermediate versions of Python
|       (1.6b1, through 2.0 and 2.1) are under a different license (see
                                 ^^
|       below).

This is what I thought (note the micro version differences!, also note
that python doesn't put a .0 micro version, but rather an empty string
micro version for the first release)

-D