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

To: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org>
Cc: debian-python@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Python-2.1 becoming Debian's default Python version
From: Neil Schemenauer <nas@python.ca>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:22:03 -0800
Message-id: <20011106092203.D7312@glacier.arctrix.com>
Mail-followup-to: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org>, debian-python@lists.debian.org
In-reply-to: <20011106230529.72e4dded.dancer@debian.org>; from dancer@debian.org on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 11:05:29PM +0900
References: <E15xsnV-0005vM-00@smile.cs.tu-berlin.de> <20011106230529.72e4dded.dancer@debian.org>

Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> I have been looking at python 2.1, and python2.1 debian/copyright file tells
> me that it is "not GPL compatible".
> 
> Is it still so?

No.  Python 2.1 is derived from 1.6.1 and _is_ GPL compatible.
According to some laywers Python 2.0 is not GPL.  According to other
laywers it is.

  Neil

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